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Coffee House Press's "CHP in the Stacks" program places their authors in libraries and special collections as an artistic residency, and readers reap the benefit.

Bookforum pays homage to novelist, poet, playwright, and biographer Kevin Killian.

The Guardian hosts a conversation between Scotland's Makar, Jackie Kay, and the outgoing U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, spanning the subjects of Insta-poetry, what it's like to be poet laureate (or makar,...

In Sheila O'Malley's new "Present Tense" column for Film Comment, she reflects on the two-volume Letters of Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (HarperCollins, 2017-18).

Poet, scholar, and critic Wayne Koestenbaum has a new piece, alongside a bevy of other writers, poets, filmmakers, and artists (we're talking Barbara Hammer, Will Oldham, Abigail Child, Dodie Bellamy, Stanya Kahn, Ed Atkins, and...

At Hyperallergic, Douglas Messerli reviews a collection from Scottish poet David Kinloch, In Search of Dustie-Fute (Carcanet).

Consider what is to follow a snapshot of an outpouring—a tender position, what we call grief.

Dan Chiasson considers the last poems of James Tate at the New Yorker.

The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin commanded Geoffrey Hill's attention for the final years of his life.