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Announced today are the finalists for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

"Though award-winning poet Nathalie Handal is of many cultures, in her latest collection, Life in a Country Album, she brings [a] particular Palestinian sensibility to her poems and to her encounters...

Jennifer Elise Foerster talks to poet Abigail Chabitnoy, author of the debut, How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan, 2019), for Poetry Northwest. "How did you find, or begin to find, the shape...

Barbados Today reports that legendary poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite has died at the age of 89.

The New York Times lists some new must-read poetry titles this week.

In his recently-published memoir, Children of the Land (Harper, 2020), Castillo writes first-hand about migrating across the Mexico/US border.

In gin hart and mal young's words, "White casts a wide community net in both cityscape and cyberspace."

For Ploughshares, Emilia Phillips considers a reading practice of generosity as a form of social justice.

Both “K” and “pop” are very liberally (un)defined here.

Literary Hub shares Mark Gustafson's recent remarks at an event paying homage to Robert Bly sponsored by Literary Witnesses and Rain Taxi: "Minnesota Celebrates Robert Bly."