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American Stanzas: 2006–2016, Rachel Eliza Griffiths's new exhibition at Poets House, is a collection of photographs featuring portraits of many Cave Canem fellows, addressing the "nuances of poetics, language, and...

And in news from the University of Arkansas, the winner of the inaugural Etel Adnan Poetry Prize is Lebanese-American writer and illustrator Jess Rizkallah. Her poetry collection, the magic my...

"His breadth of subject matter spans sex, popular culture, art, capitalism, history, the natural world, and more," LARB reviewer Caitlin Doyle writes. Amit Majmudar's freshly Knopf-published collection contains, in Doyle's...

Just ahead of his reading on Sunday at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Lecture Hall, Kwame Alexander speaks with Julie Hakim Azzam of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about guiding "reluctant readers"...

Harriet staff is reeling from news that David Antin has passed away. A poet, art writer, performance artist, beloved teacher, and critic known for his masterful "talk poems," Antin was...

From Donika Kelly's recent Bestiary, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry, Literary Hub posts Nikky Finney's urgent and thoughtful introduction: A first book is a migration story....

Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, 1964 For years Bob Dylan's named circulated as a long-shot for the Nobel (100/1 odds in 2011), and today we are surprised and...

Tin House editor and writer Rob Spillman is interviewed at Poets & Writers! "Spillman entered the book industry the old-fashioned way: with a much-loved job at a used bookstore in...

"I’m on my way to meet the son of a poet whose name is often mentioned by Latin American critics in the same breath as Vicente Huidobro and Eliot, but...

Today, an earlier one from this year that was promoted to the front page of Jacket2: Chris Hosea reviews Peter Gizzi's In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 (Wesleyan). "One...