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Dwight Garner notices similarities between Bob Kaufman's freshly published Collected Poems, and Reginald Dwayne Betts's new volume, Felon.

At The Rumpus, Sarah Freligh reviews Tina Barr's new book, Green Target (Barrow Street, 2018).

Poet Emmalea Russo reviews Cynthia Cruz's new collection of essays, Disquieting: Essays on Silence (Book*hug, 2019), for Los Angeles Review of Books.

The Guardian's Emily Hay reports that this year's Forward Prize has been awarded to Fiona Benson for Vertigo & Ghost, her second collection of verse.

I wanted to work with the family who survives (the photograph and the cutting), to employ poetry as a framework which supports what is missing.

Introducing their Asymptote interview, Sarah Timmer Harvey recounts "In the months following Hurricane Maria, Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate, Raquel Salas Rivera, simmering with rage, threw themselves into realizing two ambitious projects." Picking up there:  The...

Elizabeth Lund brings to Washington Post readers' attention new poetry collections by Nick Flynn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Nancy Naomi Carlson, and Kathleen Graber.

The good folks at Ugly Duckling Presse are calling on the independent media to take a more thoughtful approach to the way they link to books featured in reviews and...

As former director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop Ken Chen has tweeted, the essay he's just published on N+1, "Ethnicity As Counterculture," started out as an attempt to describe...