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At Los Angeles Review of Books, Will Brewbaker reads and reports on Mark Wagenaar's third collection of poetry, Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining (Red Hen Press, 2018), within the context...

At Lit Hub, Ilya Kutik and Reginald Gibbons detail the survival of the Russian poet Arsenii Tarkovsky (1907-1989), father of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The piece also looks at Stalin's work ... in poetry: ...Tarkovsky found that...

"Russian Cosmism, edited and introduced by art critic Boris Groys, reveals that [Soviet poet Alexander] Svyatogor was only one of a loose conglomeration of revolutionaries, artists, scientists, and mystics who...

At BBC's Culture section, Paul Cooper discusses poets' tendency in 6th-century literature to observe the remains of previous civilizations. "A bleak landscape stretches out in all directions, broken only by wind-hewed...

Poet Eve L. Ewing will pen the new Marvel series "Ironheart." According to the Chicago Tribune,  the story "centers on Riri Williams, a black teen girl from Chicago who is a...

Dan Chiasson reviews Forrest Gander's newest collection, Be With (New Directions, 2018), for the New Yorker. Importantly, "Gander’s partner of more than thirty years, the poet C. D. Wright, died unexpectedly in her sleep...

Zachary Pace interviews poet Samantha Zighelboim, author of  The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books, 2018), for BOMB: "Zighelboim courageously confronts our cultural complacency with the punishing standards for bodyweight, as she challenges the mainstream discourse...

At Pasatiempo, a feature on Joy Harjo, "the Muskogee poet, essayist, and musician who has been making waves with her writing since the mid-1970s," as Jennifer Levin describes the poet. "Undeterred by...

Echoing the publication of Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, May 2018), the anthology's editor, Christopher Soto, recently contributed an article to Literary Hub, drawing readers' attention to Harlem Renaissance poets and...

Lulu Garcia-Navarro, of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, speaks with Ada Limón, author of The Carrying, about the "essential questions" of being a woman in contemporary society. Garcia-Navarro explains: "Ada Limon's moving and...