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In the latest installment of LARB, Nikky Finney sits down with Donika Kelly. "A psalm of pure resolve" writes Finney about Kelly's debut work Bestiary; long-listed for the National Book...

Dalit-feminist poet Pradnya Daya Pawar translated the works of two German poets — Ulrike Draesner and Thomas Kunst — into Marathi. (Andrea Fernandes/Goethe-Institut) Mumbai is about to have its biggest...

The Lannan Foundation has announced its 2016 Fellowships, both in fiction and poetry! Full list of Poetry Fellows is below. Congratulations to everyone! The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were...

For her column "How Women Talk," Audrey Phillips speaks with poet and photographer Sophia Le Fraga. Phillips writes of Le Fraga, by way of an introduction: "A poet since the...

You'll want to queue up some William Basinski for this one. At Jacket2 John Melillo considers the medium of tape as it figures in archival recordings, particularly those of Charles...

At Hyperallergic, James Gibbons cracks into Michael Palmer's latest collection of verse, The Laughter of the Sphinx (New Directions, 2016). Gibbon is interested in Palmer's uncanny knack at cultivating silences,...

Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Paisley Rekdal's fifth book, Imaginary Vessels (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) for the LA Times. "[It] deserves to be her breakout book," writes Teicher. More: Over three pages...

Robin Coste Lewis has some words for us at Literary Hub. The poet met with Claire Schwartz at her home in Los Angeles. "Halfway through our conversation, we decided that...

Visit Newsweek to learn about Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship recipient and National Book Award finalist, Solmaz Sharif. Sharif explains that a poet's mission is to be...

At Hyperallergic, Barry Schwabsky has been thumbing through Walter Benjamin's Sonnets and committing his reflections to his "Reader's Diary." Translated by Carl Skoggard, and published in English only last year,...