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For them.'s "Read Me," a "queer literature column," Davey Davis interviews Robert Glück about the NYRB reissue of Margery Kempe, originally published in 1994 (but originally published in 1501).

At Guernica, Mark Doty writes that Walt Whitman "spent his final years in a two-story, wood-frame house on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey, less than half a mile’s walk...

This week, the Poetry Society of America and the T.S. Eliot Foundation announced that Brian Teare is the winner of this year's Four Quartets Prize.

A recent introduction for Bhanu Kapil has been published at Jacket2. 

For Lit Hub, Tishani Doshi writes alongside Thoreau as she tells of life in a rural coastal village in South India.

At Paris Review, Seamus Perry divulges one little-known secret about W.H. Auden: he was a messy roommate.

We learned yesterday of this year's Whiting Award winners, who include poet Aria Aber, essayist Jia Tolentino, and fiction writer Andrea Lawlor.

At The Guardian, Andrew Dickson writes about the ways that plagues and their aftermaths upended and informed William Shakespeare's plays.

Contributors to the March 2020 issue share some recommendations.

On Science Friday, Jane Hirshfield talks about the art (and science) of poetry.