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In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re offering lots of freebies to help you get through the cruelest month. First and foremost: the April 2015 issue of Poetry is free...

My brother and I I am currently at work on a book based on Ingeborg Bachmann’s quote (from her novel, The Thirtieth Year), “Keine neue Welt ohne Neue Sprache” (no...

I guess I’m obligated to say happy (happy?) National Poetry Month but let’s be real, this April is going to be kind of a rough one. It’s been a shitty...

At The New Yorker, Alice Gregory writes about poet and essayist Sarah Manguso, and her newest work, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, in which Manguso confronts the "dark matter"--the...

At Publisher's Weekly, Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Tracy K. Smith's newest book (officially out today, in fact), a memoir called Ordinary Light (Knopf 2015). "Ordinary Life begins with a harrowing...

Congratulations to Sjohnna McCray: winner of this year's Walt Whitman Award! The Academy of American Poets presents the Walt Whitman Award each year to one poet of exceptional promise. Sjohnna...

Today is the last mixtape! I can think of no better way to end this series than by taking a look at the work of the wonderful curators who have...

The Oakland-based radical publisher and distributor, AK Press, is reeling from a deadly fire that spread to its warehouse early in the morning on March 21st. AK Press shares the...

Thanks to the evidently tireless work of Michael Nardone and editors Jason Camlot and Christine Mitchell, Amodern 4: The Poetry Series is out and features an incredible collection of writings...

Thom Donovan interviewed Cassandra Troyan about her work's relationship to violence, post-sovereignty, and masochism--and it's all at The New Inquiry. "What does the masochist have to teach us—about subjectivity, and...