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Freshly shortlisted for the National Book Award, Solmaz Sharif's Look offers at first glance a quick observation, and at longer investigation a deep set of considerations for those yearning to...

At Public Books, Maia Silber writes an essay that covers the "poetical pilgrimage," clocking a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon like any good Shakespeare acolyte, and a move to the literary legacy...

Can poetry make city-dwellers' lives a bit more bearable? At the Guardian, Rosie Spinks revels in poetry's place among the wanderers, observers, and philosophers in cities around the world. Via...

We get a little insight into the art, poetry, and mind of Lindsey Boldt in this conversation posted just yesterday at Litseen. Boldt talks about the wilderness, her water-witch ancestors,...

From Verso's celebration of National Poetry Day in the U.K. to e-flux to Harriet: an excerpt from Alain Badiou's The Age of the Poets, "a book in which the French...

Morgan Parker is interviewed for Brooklyn Magazine's "30 Under 30." Tyler Coates uses the words "profession," "career," "foothold," and "industry," but we'll forgive him. Poetry, an industry! More importantly: "Keep...

Part article, part incantation, Dorothea Lasky's "A Belief in Ghosts: Poetry and the Shared Imagination" is a hypnotic meditation on the ways that poetry, spiritual and mystical worlds intertwine. More:...

A look at what earns the badge of "art novel" these days is up at BOMB. In particular, Micaela Morrisette considers the dual-authored, multimedia OS Grabeland, which won the 2016...

Look for me in the whirlwind She teaches us that voodoo was used as a means, during slavery, for slaves to break free from the slave master. When the slave...

At Granta, poet, novelist, and visual artist Renee Gladman discusses five artists' impacts on her new creative project: drawings. (Wave Books will publish her first collection, Prose Architectures, next year.) I...