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Read an excerpt from Kevin Young's book, Bunk, which appears in paperback as of this week, over at Literary Hub. In Bunk, Young takes a deep dive into the world...

For California Magazine, Emily Wilson spends time with Barbara Jane Reyes, recently featured at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum as part of the "Pilipinx American Library, a non-circulating library...

At Hyperallergic, John Yau considers Clark Coolidge's resistance to defining a poem, particularly in his new book, Poet (Pressed Wafer, 2018). An excerpt from this review: ...Throughout Poet Coolidge presents all sorts of...

A Guardian review of the new biography of Robert Graves notes the writer's fading reputation as a poet: "So it’s with no small ambition that Jean Moorcroft Wilson – the author...

Nathan Goldman writes about the pleasures of difficulty in John Ashbery's work (the anniversary of the late poet's death was yesterday). "As I see it, my thought is both poetry...

Earlier this summer, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the longlist for 2018 translation awards in poetry and prose. Now a little bit closer to determining the winners, ALTA shares...

Kate Tempest serves as guest editor of the latest Observer New Review. This week, readers have the opportunity to read questions and answers by seven poets whose work Tempest admires. "I find...

In his NYT review of William Logan's latest book of poetry criticism, Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past (Columbia University Press, 2018), Robert P. Baird begins with...

One week last month, when it was unseasonably cold and rainy—which I loved because I was in a depression—there were suddenly mice flurrying everywhere in the courtyard.