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For a couple of years now, I’ve been troubling my art with the question: If I were truly what they claim to imagine I am, what would happen to them?...

Created in partnership with Treehouse Investments (a social impact firm), the Academy of American Poets's Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize will award funds from $500 to $1,000 to three poets,...

May we delve into the world of fiction for a moment—if you can call Clarice Lispector a fiction writer—because Magdalena Edwards's essay on translator Benjamin Moser at the Los Angeles Review of Books is a...

Poet and author Patricia Lockwood talks to The Cut about her cat, Miette, who became famous on Twitter after threatening to jail her cat-mom for one-thousand years.

Did you know that "literary influences run through Iron Maiden's back catalogue"?

In an Op-Ed at the Washington Examiner, Madeline Fry writes about Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli's ad hoc revision of "The New Colossus," the Emma Lazarus poem that graces the Statue of Liberty.

Cody-Rose Clevidence talks with poet Elaine Kahn about writing, editing, and living in the wilds of Northwest Arkansas, for the Creative Independent.

The New York Times shares Daisy Fried's thoughts about the newest collection by incoming United States Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise (W. W. Norton, 2019).

Have a look at Jena Schmitt's review of To the Many: Collected Early Poems (Little Island Press, 2018), by radical poet Lola Ridge, in the newest issue of PN Review.

Looks like Simon Armitage is doing well in his UK poet laureate post; The Guardian's Alison Flood reports that Armitage has engraved a chemotherapy pill with a poem titled "Finishing It."