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A.M. Juster traces poet Wendy Cope's publication history while reviewing the poet's latest collection, Anecdotal Evidence, at Los Angeles Review of Books. Juster explains that Cope's celebrity often takes American readers...

Brian Unger reviews David Schneider's Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen (University of California Press, 2015) for Jacket2, noting off the bat that, despite its "delightful coterie...

At PBS NewsHour, Jennifer Hijazi visits Danez Smith, author of Don't Call Us Dead. As Hijazi explains, "An award-winning spoken word artist, Smith’s 'Dear White America,' was a biting, cascade of a...

While Native readers and writers reevaluate power structures within their literary community, Stacy Pratt ventures to recommend a few extraordinary books by Native women that "you need to have in your...

Diana Whitney at the San Francisco Chronicle reviews three new poetry collections: Evie Shockley's semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2018); James Crews's Telling My Father (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018); and Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beast (Ecco,...

Coldfront editor and poet Jackie Clark has decided to put the 10-year-old series "Poets Off Poetry" on hiatus, explaining in a heartfelt goodbye-note that "[i]t felt really meaningful to me to...

Kristina Monllos, of Adweek, details a new tactic employed by the advertising industry to capture readers' attention: poetry. This new approach is being utilized by brands ranging from Coca-Cola to...

For those of us who are looking for answers about poetry, Gregory Orr's new Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry is one way to get to the bottom of a sometimes daunting...

At Bite the Weeds, poet and scholar Edmund Hardy reads a poem by "rebel-scholar" Huang Chao (835–884) about revolution against the Tang Dynasty via armed chrysanthemum. "The large smuggling networks combined with...