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The Palestinian-born, Stockholm-based poet Ghayath Almadhoun’s first book to be published in English is Adrenalin (Action Books, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham). Sohini Basak interviews Almadhoun for Asymptote, and writes in her introduction that...

At Fanzine, Gina Myers reviews Philadelphia poet Ryan Eckes's third poetry collection, General Motors (Split Lip Press, 2018).  "Eckes offers another vision for America–a glimpse at how different things could be if people...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the March 2018 issue share some recommendations.

Poets & Writers reports today that David Fenza, long-time executive director of Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), will no longer head the organization. The decision by the board of...

On March 21st in London, items belonging to the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes will go to auction. According to Rebecca Rego Barry, who writes about it at Literary...

San Francisco Examiner introduces readers to poet and movement worker Tongo Eisen-Martin. Eisen-Martin is the author of, most recently, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights, 2017). In her article, Denise...

Barry Schwabsky reminds us that in losing John Ashbery, "we also lost an outstanding art critic." He also finds "an inimitable tone" to be the commonality between the art criticism...

Peter Twal’s Our Earliest Tattoos, his first book, won the 2018 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, which is awarded to poets of Arab heritage for a first or second book. A...

This week, Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, NY released a call for proposals for a work of public art (site-specific sculpture or installation) to honor Lucille Clifton. Clifton, who...