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For NPR Music's "Daily Breather" series, Sadie Dupuis discusses the ways that poetry has helped her get through these days of self-isolation and quarantine.

Sarah Nielson shares with readers of BOMB commentary from recently published poets who find inspiration in the books that surround them.

One thing is for sure: Jim Carroll should be recognized as a significant writer of original poetry, the core of it to be found in Living at the Movies.

"Although [Alice] Notley is less known to a casual poetry readership—her inventiveness and audacity are matched by her difficulty —she is one of the singular voices in contemporary American poetry,"...

In this relentless time of coronavirus, PEN America has re-launched the Writers’ Emergency Fund, reports Corinne Segal for Lit Hub.

We need the human voice, through poetry and song, to take us through.

I often imagine poets as detectives on separate cases, always edging toward uncovering a new fragment or a whole sequence.

Crystal Hana Kim talks to Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings, for The Guardian.