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Brenda Hillman's tenth collection of poetry, Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days, is the subject of a review by Craig Morgan Teicher at the Los Angeles Times. To start, Teicher asks,...

At the Village Voice, Alana Mohamed writes about Elizabeth Acevedo's first verse novel, The Poet X. Acevedo is the author of two previous books, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths and Medusa...

For Fanzine, Alli Warren interviews Philadelphia-based poet Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, whose first collection, Oil and Candle, was published by Timeless, Infinite Light in 2016; his new book, Jazzercise Is a Language (The Operating System, 2018),...

ABC 7's Santa Rosa, California reporter Juan Carlos Guerrero spends time with Cynthia Phipps, who, like many North Bay residents, is in the process of working through emotions after last year's firestorm....

In his final installment at Jacket2, Piotr Gwiazda discusses how Carla Harryman’s "critical/creative encounter with the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch," Artifact of Hope (Kenning Editions, Ordinance series, 2018), with its pedagogical...

At the New Yorker, Diana Goetsch discusses teaching poetry to nonfiction writer William Zinsser. Zinsser, the author of books including On Writing Well, contacted Goetsch to ask for poetry lessons while...

In an effort to address the historic gender imbalance in their obituary section, the New York Times launches a new initiative today to acknowledge women who never received a Times...

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative announces Series VII, featuring Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, Jack Forbes, and Paul Blackburn and Julio Cortázar. From the Center for the Humanities release: Building...

This morning, a note went out to Columbia School of the Arts—where Lucie Brock-Broido has long been the Poetry Concentration Director—announcing that the beloved poet and teacher has passed away after a struggle with...