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Sumita Chakraborty reviews Tracy K. Smith's new book, Wade in the Water (Graywolf, 2018), for Los Angeles Review of Books. Noting her connection with Dickinson, Chakraborty writes that Smith's poems "often...

The Academy of American Poets has announced the organization's prizes for this year of 2018, with recipients including David Larsen, Raquel Salas Rivera, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Sonia Sanchez, who has...

The New Yorker's poetry editor Kevin Young invites Catherine Barnett to join the latest installment of the magazine's poetry podcast. Their conversation centers on the poetry of Wisława Szymborska, specifically her poem...

What is the legacy of projective verse, as theorized in Charles Olson's 1950 essay of that title? At Los Angeles Review of Books, Max Lesser discusses the revolutionary idea's connections...

The New York Times has published an obituary for poet Tom Clark, who died on August 18 at the age of 77. "His wife, Angelica, said he died in a hospital a...

Hyperallergic's Tim Keane draws readers' attention to the moment when Marcel Proust shifted to art criticism, as suggested by Eric Karpeles's Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search...

Some good news coming out of the offices of the Poetry Foundation today: Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, sam sax, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Paul Tran are this year's Ruth Lilly and...

José Olivarez’s collection, Citizen Illegal, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books next month. At the Paris Review, Andy Powell introduces a few of the collection's major themes: "gentrification, gentefication (which Olivarez...

At Lambda Literary, Theodore Kerr reviews Pamela Sneed's memoir, Sweet Dreams (Belladonna*, 2018). "In the slim 48-page book, a reader has the chance to go from being able to pick Sneed out of...

A new piece by Juliana Spahr on "building a better (socialist) MFA system" is up at Lit Hub. "Higher education is probably unique for how elitist it is in reality...