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A new magazine—rather, "a straight-to-PDF zine of epipoetry, etc."—is at the proverbial doorstep! Just published yesterday, Erotoplasty 1 features, among much else, Victor Hugo translated by Peter Manson; and a series of reviews, or...

Writer Negar Azimi finds Eileen Myles's new memoir about her dog Rosie, Afterglow (Grove Atlantic, 2017), to "[scramble] our unthinking acceptance of humans as superior beings." Azimi met Myles, and her new dog Honey,...

True to Anni Albers's intent, what's discovered in her 1965 book On Weaving—recently expanded and re-published by Princeton University Press and available at David Zwirner Books—is that "textiles can inspire those working...

The Guardian's Amandas Ong suggests in a new article that discussions about Edna St. Vincent Millay's personal life have been more than prominent. "For far too long, Millay’s work has...

At the New York Times, Ariel Dorfman contributes an op-ed reminding readers of poet Pablo Neruda's influence on Chile's immigration debates in the middle of the twentieth century. Today, echoing global trends, Chile leans...

Yesterday was Hannah Arendt's birthday, and to celebrate, Literary Hub published a piece from Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953 – 1975 (Schocken Books, 2018), edited by Jerome Kohn, about...

Stephanie Burt reviews Nick Twemlow's Attributed to the Harrow Painter (University of Iowa Press, 2017) for the current issue of Rain Taxi. "Few poets so clearly committed, emotionally, to poetry have...

On the occasion of the publication of her first book of poems, Soap for the Dogs (Gramma Press, 2018), Stacey Tran talks with writer and curator Minh Nguyen about national...

Join Rain Taxi's Paul E. Nelson for a discussion with poet and publisher Charles Potts. Nelson introduces us to Potts, writing: Based in Walla Walla, Washington for decades, Charles Potts says...

At BOMB, read Ammiel Alcalay's review of Dennis Tedlock's The Olson Codex: Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs. Tedlock's volume examines Olson's intersections with indigenous cultures, and, as Alcalay points...