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The Irish Times considers Samuel Beckett's relationship with France (and other nations "on the continent") in an article entitled "Samuel Beckett: European Irishman?"

Dean Kuipers reads Jim Harrison's posthumous collection, Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems (Copper Canyon, this month), sharing his thinking at Lit Hub.

Levi Todd spoke with Franny Choi about her second poetry collection, Soft Science (Alice James Books), for The Rumpus. 

At The Believer, poet Jameson Fitzpatrick reviews Lucy Ives's new novel, Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World (Soft Skull, 2019).

In The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels, Adam Nicolson investigates English Literature circa 1797–1798.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico's Lima :: Limón is her second collection of poetry and the first fastened together by "an unusual punctuation mark."

Vuong's debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, follows his much-praised 2016 poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds.

Washington D.C. is observing the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth in a myriad of ways, explains WAMU Arts & Culture reporter Mikaela Lefrak.

Writing can admit agency over a world—over “the” world, over “our” world—but when that world involves those-who-are-not-the-one-writing, what does it mean to write on our world’s behalf, of our world’s...