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In 2011, the Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes (recent Harriet blogger with Jen Hofer) fled Ciudad Juarez and crossed the United States/Mexico border into Texas, telling no one prior to her...

With the metaphorical bridge between the U.S. and Cuba slowly being reconstructed, Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco recently returned to the island to visit his family's old neighborhood. Yahoo! News is...

At Jacket2, a sharp review of Brandon Brown's Top 40! "In writing Top 40 (Roof Books, 2014) as a conversation with the Top 40, Brown creates an expectation that his...

It's been eight years since "Iraq's uncrowned queen of poetry," Nazik Al-Mala'ika, died. Back in 2011, we observed Google's glorious tribute to Al-Mala'ika on her 88th birthday, via Feministing. This...

Claudia Rankine has written a stunning piece for the New York Times Magazine in the wake of the Charleston shooting, focusing on the current condition of black life--that it is...

At Boston Review, a microreview of Durham-based poet Joanna Penn Cooper's first book, What Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press 2014)! If you seek innovative poetry that engages with motherhood, this...

As The Telegraph headline declares in summation: "Oxford 'dull old farts' choose Simon Armitage as new Professor of Poetry." And so our otherwise starving angst malcontently says, "thank you." Simon...

George Starbuck Note: Poetry first published George Starbuck in January 1960, and over the course of nearly three decades he published almost two dozen poems in the magazine. These include...

Deborah Landau's new poem "You've Got to Start Somewhere" pushes against digital saturation and thinks about a different, more analog, contact with the world. The poem begins: I had the idea...

In "The Technocrat's Guide to the Galaxy," poet Srikanth Reddy talks with Lucy Ives "about the possible plurality of worlds, poets as 'feeling machines,' and how to make an aesthetic...