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In the September issue of The Brooklyn Rail, translator Anna Deeny Morales is in conversation with Argentine poet Mercedes Roffé, whose newest book, Ghost Opera (co-im-press), translated by Judith Filc, recalls composer...

Bret McCabe of Johns Hopkins University's Hub speaks with JHU alumna Elizabeth Spires about the ways that her experience meeting and interviewing Elizabeth Bishop for the Paris Review shaped the course of her writing. "In...

At Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM), learn about the history of Renaissance Books, the bookstore inside General Mitchell International Airport, courtesy of reporter Maayan Silver. "Walk into the public area of...

At KGB Bar Lit, Sébastien Bernard reviews Anne Carson's translation of Euripides' Bakkhai (New Directions, 2017), writing that it is "all one would expect of her work: modern, frisky, precise, dense, completely original, and absolutely...

For our September 2018 playlist, we asked contributor Keith S. Wilson to curate a selection of music for us. 

Juliana Spahr and journalist Nathaniel Rich appear on Lit Hub's Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, in which Spahr talks about, among other things, "her recent Harper’s poem 'A Destruction Story,' Trump’s use of poetry in his recent rallies, and the purpose...

Alison Flood introduces readers of The Guardian to a new collection of poetry by Pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddall's. The book is edited by Dr. Serena Trowbridge. "Her pale face floating amongst...

At Pacific Standard, a new compendium of Adrienne Rich's writings, Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (W.W. Norton), serves as the impetus for a look back at Rich's...

Posted yesterday at the Paris Review is an insightful conversation, as one might expect, between Eileen Myles and Shoshana Olidort. The interview covers a good deal of space, ranging between Myles's...