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At NPR, Maureen Corrigan reviews Ian Sansom's September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem.

"That's still the whole arc of the show, that desire for more language. It builds and builds and builds, and by the end, it's exploded into this ornate epilogue. It...

In her new collection of poetry, How to Cure a Ghost, Fariha Róisín writes to heal from the traumas that have haunted her.

An essay by Claire Bourne, now an assistant professor at Penn State, suggesting that the Philadelphia Free Library's copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio may be annotated with notes by John Milton, has...

At the New York Times, William Grimes reminds us of Alvarez's friendship with Sylvia Plath.

At BOMB, poet and author Ben Lerner's newest, The Topeka School (FSG), is reviewed by Ryan Meehan.

We awoke to the good news this morning that poet and novelist Ocean Vuong and translator Emily Wilson are among the 26 MacArthur Fellows for 2019.

Poet Danny Hayward finds depth in brevity in his review of the William Blake show at the Tate Britain for Artforum.