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I like to wonder what Alison C. Rollins has done with Robert Hayden’s “Bone-Flower Elegy” in her poem, “The Beastangel.”

Andy Fitch interviewed Mónica de la Torre for the Los Angeles Review of Books blog (aka BLARB) this weekend, if you didn't catch it.

At Los Angeles Review of Books, poets and writers Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Quincy Troupe, Margaret Porter Troupe, and Ishmael Reed all remember Toni Morrison.

Sara Martin writes about her connection with Paul Celan's poem, "Corona," at Literary Hub.

TIME features an interview with poet laureate Joy Harjo, where she answers a few questions about her new book, An American Sunrise, among other things. "You found your voice as a poet...

Dorothy Parker would have been 126 today!

New poetry collections take center stage in the Times's Book Review section, where the focus is on new books by Dunya Mikhail, James Tate, José Antonio Rodríguez, and more.

Sharon Olds speaks with Maya Popa about her forthcoming collection, Arias (Knopf), for Publishers Weekly.

In "Eros at Play," published at Aeon, Jamie Mackay reads poetry by Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi to examine just how both writers' works are as erotic as ever, and in fact, "more stimulating than...

At Literary Hub, Nick Ripatrazone considers the evolution of poetry in high school classrooms, from the fruition of programs like "Poets in Schools" to the more contemporary initiative spearheaded by Melissa Smith called #TeachLivingPoets.