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For Prospect Magazine, Jeremy Noel-Tod considers John Ashbery's oeuvre in light of Karin Rofman's biography, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life (FSG, 2017), and other books, like They Knew What...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's voice is "vital as ever," says John McMurtrie in a piece about the poet, who is about to turn 99, at the San Francisco Chronicle. "'A Coney Island of the...

Last night at the New York Historical Society, Elizabeth Alexander presided over a ceremony honoring four poets, Anne Boyer, Rickey Laurentiis, Antoinette Nwandu, and Tommy Pico, with Whiting Awards for 2018. (Alexander...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Levine started to collaborate with saxophonist Benjamin Boone when he was 84 years old (just three years before his death from pancreatic cancer in...

Note: This post by Skyla Hearn, the Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at DuSable Museum of African American History, was commissioned on the occasion of Damon Locks’s essay, “Digging Culture” (Poetry, March...

At 3:AM, MH reviews Anne Boyer's newest collection of essays, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (UDP, 2018), and writes that the book, "inflicts writing that perfects its own oppositions and rehearses...

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's debut collection, Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017), is reviewed at Latino Book Review. "Dealing with family, ancestry, heredity, illness, and migration, Beast Meridian is situated in the borderlands, in what...

Dan Chiasson writes about classics scholar and translator Emily Wilson, whose recent translation of Homer's The Odyssey is making waves; her tweets on International Women's Day have, too. "I am thinking...

At Yellow Rabbits, Greg Bem reviews CAConrad's latest collection, While Waiting in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017). "The unapologetic and the extreme present are married fulfillments discoverable again and again...