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In Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir Deirdre Bair writes about her experiences writing biographies of two literary giants in succession.

Today, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts published their annual count for 2018.

At the Washington Post, Scott Bradfield reviews Thomas Travisano's Elizabeth Bishop biography, recently published by Viking Press.

Nicole Treska talks to Tuscon-based poet Diana Marie Delgado, author of the debut collection, Tracing the Horse (BOA Editions).

Poets & Writers has 10 questions for Elaine Equi, whose poetry collection The Intangibles is out today from Coffee House Press!

One day I looked in the mirror and saw Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo” staring back at me.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths met Reginald Dwayne Betts at the 2006 Cave Canem Retreat.

Alison Flood of The Guardian informs readers about Diane Watt's forthcoming book Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100, which "argues that women were at the heart of the emerging...

At The Rumpus, poet and teacher Linda Bierds is interviewed by Rachel Edelman, "just prior to the publication of The Hardy Tree (Copper Canyon, September 2019)."

At NYRB, Ange Mlinko reviews Canadian poet Karen Solie's fifth collection, The Caiplie Caves (House of Anansi Press, 2019).