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Our friend Marie Buck is interviewed by rob mclennan! We have a soft spot for these interviews, and have been enjoying Buck's recent book, Portrait of Doom (Krupskaya 2015). "[A]ll...

By now we hope you had the chance to read though this amazing and thoughtful roundtable discussion on translation at Best American Poetry blog, with participants Marie Buck, Jennifer Scappettone,...

Tomb-raiders, beware! The security around Dante Alighieri's tomb in Italy just became a little bit tighter due to (eek) threats from Isis. More: The tomb of Dante Alighieri, Italy's best-known...

We aren't sure how William Carlos Williams would feel about the Twitter generation, but, according to NY Mag's Annie Lowrey—it sure likes him! Lowrey drops it like it's hot, at...

Destruction in the Afternoon (Lavender Ink 2015), by "one of Ecuador's finest poets," Santiago Vizcaíno, is reviewed at Entropy. "Against the grain of this [U.S. cultural] optimism, I would...

At Boston Review, Elizabeth Willis reviews two Fred Moten titles, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions 2014) and The Little Edges (Wesleyan, 2014). "Poetry, by virtue of its adaptive vocality,...

How did the Iranian modernist Sohrab Sepehri find his voice? At The New Yorker, Neima Jahromi brings together both poetry and politics in his portrait of Sepehri to paint a...

Tracey Emin, Monument Valley (Grand Scale) 1995-97 The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the July/August 2015 issue share some books that...

At Your Impossible Voice, Patrick James Dunagan provides insight into Joshua Clover's most recent collection of poems, Red Epic. The collection is published by Commune Editions: a new "start-up press...

At Full Stop, a new piece by Anne Boyer called "This Imaginary Half-Nothing: Time" reveals her reading-time during sick-time, and the connections therein (Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain met Christa...