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In the Boston Globe's Op-Ed pages, Robert Pinsky writes in to comment on the relevance of state universities and the important role that they play within our democracy. He begins by...

Following a report in June indicating poetry readership is on the rise, the National Endowment for the Arts today released their findings from a survey showing an overall increase in...

Reviewing a fresh compilation of Adrienne Rich's prose, Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry, for the New York Times, Parul Sehgal leads with one of the questions Rich...

Danish is a quirky language, and one of my favorite quirks is that the same word—guldsmed—can mean either “goldsmith” or “dragonfly.”

At VoyageChicago, an interview with artist, poet, and editor Tony Trigilio, who we can thank for Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, "a collection of poems [he] compiled and annotated from Cowen’s only surviving...

Last week, Kevin Killian wrote about the rise of Trump, and the hope for his fall, for McSweeney's, as part of an ongoing feature (until the midterms) where the journal will publish essays...

Griffin Poetry Prize-winner Liz Howard talks to The Star Calgary about her residency at the University of Calgary: She is "hoping to use the bounty of time to complete a...

Barry Schwabsky reviews Chelsey Minnis's newest collection of poems to come out with Wave Books, Baby, I Don't Care, for Hyperallergic's latest Weekend Reads. As Schwabsky explains leading into his column,...

In halls and moods of violent possession, we speak of languages as things we “have.”

A handful of letters written by Sylvia Plath to her psychiatrist between 1960 and 1963 are the most significant entries in the recently published Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963,...