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New York Times reporter Jennifer Schuessler discusses a recent discovery by Topeka poet Eric McHenry that led to an important revelation about Langston Hughes. "Hughes, a leading light of the Harlem...

Being such an attentive and heroic witness can mean that you yourself, as that witness, are never entirely seen.

Poet Ilya Kaminsky contributes an essay to the New York Times's magazine about looking back at his childhood in Odessa. "What I remember most of all is washing Leo Tolstoy’s...

Since the end of June, the Poetry Foundation has been home to On Visiting the Franklin Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens: An Interactive Poetry Installation. This exhibition marks our first...

Kim Yideum’s Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2018), translated by Ji yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, and Johannes Göransson, is reviewed by Madeleine Wattenberg for The Bind this week. After reading the...

At the Irish Times, Marie O'Halloran reflects on the life of Matthew Sweeney. Sweeney, a poet who passed away too soon, was, in O'Halloran's words, "a member of Aosdána, which honours...

At The Fanzine, see Brandon Brown's recent book, The Four Seasons, through poet (and reviewer) Michael Gottlieb's eyes. "At first glance this does look like a day book, a packed,...

For BOMB, Ruby Brunton interviews Chase Berggrun about the poet's debut, R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), a book-length erasure of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. "A stream of blood runs through your work. What is...

At Los Angeles Review of Books, Richard H. Armstrong writes about Emily Wilson's recently published translation of Homer's "Odyssey." "By my count," Armstrong explains, "we have seen 27 translations of...