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My to-do list today says, “Cephalopod poem,” as in write one.  I’ve been thinking about cephalopods because I just read Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins...

Poet and artist Jen Bervin is in residence at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art this winter, and her work will connect her with students as well as allow for some cross-disciplinary...

For the New York Times's Book Review section, Jeff Gordinier reviews a new selection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems, compiled by Nancy J. Peters and published by New Directions. "Unscientific polling over the...

Translator and poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Water & Salt (Red Hen Press), talks to M. Lynx Qualey of Arab Lit about translation from Arabic, poetry community, belonging, contrast, and more....

Lucky are we who are coming to read Joan Murray (1917–1942), with much credit due to poet and editor Farnoosh Fathi. In an adaptation of her introduction to the recently published Joan Murray:...

The Guardian's Jonathan McAloon reflects on the personal dimensions of T.S. Eliot's seminal work, "The Waste Land," while looking into a recent exhibition of works inspired by the poem, currently showing at the Turner...

At Los Angeles Review of Books, Nomi Stone interviews 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Vievee Francis about her collection Forest Primeval. Their conversation explores ideas of landscape, particularly those of Detroit and...

After a visit to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, for a poetry festival, Sandra Beasley remarks on the situation for poets from the United States traveling as guests of the U.S. government....

This week we were saddened to hear of the death of Gerrit Lansing, as remembrances and tributes on social media have poured in. Earlier in the week, Pierre Joris wrote...