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We love when poets don many hats and work outside the familiar zone of poetry. Poet Meredith Quartermain finds a comfortable place writing between poetry, flash fiction, and the novel...

The Arkansas-born singer/songwriter, Iris DeMent's latest album, "The Trackless Woods," sets to music a series of poems left behind by the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). Like DeMent's 1992 debut,...

A review of the 25th anniversary edition of Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets (Tender Buttons Press 2014) is up at Omniverse, with a clever (and meaningful!) angle: reviewer RJ Ingram read the...

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its 2016 Literary Translation Fellowships, providing $275,000 "in recommended grants to 20 translators to support the new translation of fiction, creative nonfiction,...

We're grateful to the Philadelphia Inquirer for tipping us off to this incredible documentary on the life and work of the amazing Sonia Sanchez, aptly titled BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez....

At Heavy Feather Review, AK Afferez close-reads The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, published by Canarium and translated by Sawako Nakayasu. Afferez remarks: "this first comprehensive collection of Sagawa’s poems...

The Wall Street Journal introduces readers to a common archival conundrum occurring in today's increasingly digital, literary era: how to preserve and archive internationally-acclaimed authors's digital correspondences. Sudheendra Hangal, a...

Frieze Magazine does not disappoint in this monograph of the Tokyo avant-garde art group known as the "Mavoists." Andrew Maerkle provides a thorough background of the movement, started in 1923,...

At New York Magazine, Eileen Myles is one of the selected writers contributing to a feature called "How to Spend Time Alone" (specifically in New York City, naturally). Other points...

They say you can be a bad person and still make a great thing. They say you can use poetry cynically for your own selfish gain in the name of...