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Sandra M. Gilbert explores the prose of Adrienne Rich for Paris Review Daily. One informs the other, intimates Gilbert: "[P]erhaps it hasn’t yet been clearly enough understood how crucially her writings...

Steven William Thrasher interviews Justin Phillip Reed, author of Indecency (Coffee House, 2018), for Lit Hub. After discussing the book's cover image, they move on to contextualizing some poems. An excerpt from this...

James Reith implores readers to examine Argentinian poet and fiction writer Norah Lange's writing in translation, in particular, a forthcoming novel translated by Charlotte Whittle called People in the Room. About...

Anne Waldman's new book, Trickster Feminism (Penguin, 2018), is reviewed by Marcella Durand for Hyperallergic this week. "Her intimate knowledge of the 'outrider' tradition is, at this point, so invaluable that...

Creative Independent hosts a conversation between journalist Katy Henriksen and Katrine Øgaard Jensen. Leading the discussion, Henriksen asks, "You’re a writer, journalist, translator, poet, and editor. Why do you work in all...

At Nylon, 25 writers share the books that inspired them to write! "There is no single reason anyone becomes a writer, and yet for so many authors, there are distinct...

In many ways, it feels surreal to have my first book of poetry come out during this moment—a collection that narrativizes domestic abuse by a sociopathic father, as well as more subtle...

Writer, translator, and bookstore-owner Emma Ramadan reviews Etel Adnan's new book, Surge (Nightboat, 2018), for Full Stop. Ramadan thinks of Adnan as a poet-philosopher: "It’s as though we are watching Adnan...