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We learned today of a big win for Danez Smith, who will be taking home the UK's 2018 Forward prize for best poetry collection. The prize honors Smith's 2017 collection...

At The Rumpus, Molly Fisk takes a close look at Samantha Zighelboim's debut poetry collection, The Fat Sonnets. "If you were very angry and if you were in love with...

"For every religious reference, there’s a bum joke; scatology always follows eschatology," Sam Jordison writes in a recent article published in The Guardian's Reading Group section. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is rife...

Maggie Nelson's poetry collection, Something Bright, Then Holes, originally published in 2007, was reissued this year by Soft Skull, and we'd be remiss to miss a review of the book...

In the new fall issue of BOMB, Emma Ramadan is interviewed by Kyle Paoletta, who shines a light on translation work and bookshop-owning that Ramadan is less known for (her translation of...

Emma Garman introduces readers of the Paris Review to the Mexican poet and writer Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) as part of the monthly column, "Feminize Your Canon." "Images of literal and emotional solitude haunt the...

Vulture brought together a panel of critics in an attempt to canonize our century in literature, though editor Boris Kachka acknowledges that "so much of how we measure cultural value is in flux"...

At Literary Hub, Philip Metres recalls Kahlil Gibran's influence on Metres's adolescence and his writing to follow. Metres begins with a little background: "The first thing that you learn about Khalil Gibran from...

Michael Kelleher is in conversation with Chus Pato, whose work from the Galician is frequently translated into English by Canadian poet, translator, and writer Erín Moure. As Kelleher explains in his introduction...

At The Millions, investigate Lauren Levin's latest collection of poetry, Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018), with Arya Samuelson, who remarks: "Unflinching, dialectical, and curious to its core, Levin’s...