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On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Jason Miller details the civil rights leader's complicated friendship with poet Langston Hughes. At Smithsonian magazine, Miller explains, "For years,...

For a segment at Los Angeles Review of Books, Rico Frederick discusses some of the themes from the Poetry Coalition's 2018 Initiative: "Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry...

The California Book Award finalists have been announced! In Poetry, for books all published in 2017, they include: Poetry Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Tongo Eisen-Martin Holy Ghost, David Brazil I Love It Though, Alli Warren Invocation to Daughters, Barbara...

I can’t be the only one who’s looked at Duchamp’s “Fountain” and thought what beautiful things toilets are. The sinuous, vaguely anthropomorphic shape; the porcelain’s serene shine; the holes in...

For the LA Times, Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Li-Young Lee's fifth collection of poems, The Undressing (W.W. Norton, 2018). Teicher notes that, "[a]t his best, Lee is capable of enormous sensuality, of blurring the...

For National Poetry Month, Remezcla lists seven Latinx poets whose verse is deserving of your attention this month or any month of the year. As Alejandra Oliva begins, "We’re lucky enough...

Why are we so annoyed by subway advertisements which lead us to believe that they are from Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion campaign, but by the last line,...

Poets don’t usually put pictures of themselves on the front cover of their books. It comes off as gauche and needy—Here’s my picture! Here’s my name! Here’s my book! I’m...