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Toby Faber tells Literary Hub's readers about a few of the publishing house's most notable rejections, including T.S. Eliot's rejection of W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot's rejection of James Joyce.

Actor John Lithgow has written "an entire book of political verse," says Jason Boog for Publishers Weekly.

"It was, in fact, poetry that brought her to New York City—not wine," says Rosie Schaap about poet Amanda Smeltz.

At Lit Hub, Natalie Adler weighs in on Anne Boyer's The Undying (FSG).

An interview with Tongo Eisen-Martin (part 2, no less) is up at the Adobe Books blog.

Amelia Rosselli's Diario Ottuso ("Obtuse Diary") appeared as a bilingual edition in 2018 published by Entre Ríos Books and translated by Deborah Woodard, Roberta Antognini, and Dario De Pasquale.

Mary Ruefle's latest collection of poetry is Dunce (Wave, 2019).

Be sure you don't miss out on the excellent poetry portfolio edited and introduced by David Grundy over at Jacket2, featuring poetry by and essays about Tom Weatherly.

"I have very little sense of my poems evolving," says Irish poet Frank Ormsby, interviewed by Reading Ireland editor Adrienne Leavy for the Irish Times.

Starting with William Carlos Williams, Nick Ripatrazone's latest article at Literary Hub is a meditation on self-publishing, in particular, its ties to the poetry world.