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I hear this question yearly: “How does the poet Ai get away with her persona poems?” as though by writing the poems she not only committed a crime but got...

RL Goldberg looks toward creating a trans literary canon at the Paris Review Daily, keeping in mind an apprehension "about the limitations inherent in canonization, mainly canon’s inadequate literary representation of...

Over the weekend we received word that celebrated poet, playwright, and performer Ntozake Shange passed away at the age of 70. She was, in New York Times journalist Laura Collins-Hughes's...

The Notre Dame Review has made available some of its current content, including this great review of Dan Hoy's poetry collection, The Terraformers (Third Man Books, 2017), in conjunct with Jamison Crabtree's...

Kevin Thurston wrote an article about Rachel Zucker that was supposed to be an interview, in advance of her reading in Buffalo last week. On September 30: "They arrange to speak...

There must be a "Great Poet" with whom you have an ongoing fight, says Anthony Madrid, "one from whom you are continuously learning." For Madrid, it's Czesław Miłosz. "When I...

Kelsi Vanada recently translated Berta García Faet's fifth poetry collection, La edad de merecer (The Eligible Age, Song Bridge Press). In a conversation at The Rumpus, Vanada asks about this expression that titles the book, and how...

For Artforum, poet, writer, and educator Corrine Fitzpatrick reflects on an early October performance-lecture delivered by artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer at the Whitney Museum. In The Art of Dying or (Palliative Art Making...

Poet and activist Patricia Spears Jones recently gave the closing keynote address at the October 1 LITtap conference; and at Electric Lit, readers can check out an abridged version of...