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At The Quietus, Lotte Lewis opens a review of Forrest Gander's new collection, Be With, with a look at his time translating Bolivian writer Jaime Sáenz, during which Gander "learned of the...

In his latest piece published at the New Yorker, Hilton Als close reads Tracy K. Smith's poetry, thinking about how difficult it can be for African-American women writers to document their experiences...

At the New York Review of Books, Gabrielle Bellot shares her connection with Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and examines the poet's lifelong sense of loneliness. Bellot begins by considering Bishop's 1929...

Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf, 2018) by Diane Seuss is reviewed by Anne Graue for The Rumpus. "These poems are so full of meaning that to try to...

Franklin's work surfaces slippages of reality, revisits tropes of Black womanhood in the last century to grant us a vision of the next one.

Commune Editions published poet Wendy Trevino's new collection, Cruel Fiction, this month. For Frieze, Steven Zultanski contextualizes the collection, writing, "A recurring concern of leftist contemporary poetry is how to...

At Literary Hub, learn about Elizabeth Metzger and Max Ritvo's uncommon friendship and their correspondences, which led to Metzger's task of putting together Ritvo's final poetry collection, The Final Voicemails...