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Shy Watson reviews Rachel Rabbit White's debut collection, Porn Carnival (Wonder, 2020), for The Rumpus.

In the wake of Kamau Braithwaite's death, Gabrielle Bellot looks at a 1974 essay, "The African Presence in Caribbean Literature."

Literary biographer Deirdre Bair has penned what she calls a "bio-memoir," Parisian Lives (Nan A. Talese, 2019), which tracks the 15 years spent writing biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir in Paris.

Elisa Gabbert is set to take over as the New York Times Book Review's poetry columnist, replacing David Orr, who will focus on his writing.

Yesterday, we learned of the death of Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal at the age of 95.

Spaar attends to "two volumes receiving their second acts in English: Francesc Parcerisas’s Still Life with Children and Ye Lijun’s My Mountain Country."

Paris Review shares an excerpt from Cathy Park Hong's latest, Minor Feelings.

New Mexico has selected Levi Romero, "a poet, architect, lowrider, and professor of Chicano studies who writes in Spanish, English, and Spanglish, with and without italics," as its first poet laureate.

Plans are in the works for a National Poetry Centre in Leeds, reports Alison Flood for The Guardian. 

Literary Hub hosts an interview with Mahogany L. Browne, who wrote the foreword to a new edition of Lorde's Sister Outsider.