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K. Rose Miller reviews Heather Christle's Heliopause (Wesleyan, 2015) for MAKE magazine. "Through her careful, gentle attention to the local and personal, Christle gestures outward toward the cosmic and sublime," writes Miller. More: In any...

At LitHub, poet Natalie Diaz introduces a new, bi-monthly series featuring the poetry of indigenous women, meant to be like a Mojave song-map, "to offer myriad ways of 'poetic' and linguistic experience—a...

A rather medieval take on Valentine's Day... At ASU Now, Jamie Ell shares a reminder from professors affiliated with the university's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: historically, poetry's subject matter...

Though they did not carry on a romantic love affair, as the myths at times suggest, Italian poet Vittoria Colonna did influence Michelangelo's "ideas about religion, patronized his work, and served...

At Split This Rock, Domenica Ghanem talks to poet, scholar, yoga teacher, and editor Kazim Ali. As you might expect, their conversation is rich and dynamic, ranging from questions about...

Once again, Trump wants to eliminate the NEA. In a statement, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu writes: "We are disappointed because we see our funding actively making a...

Phoebe Cripps writes for Frieze about Berlin's transmediale festival last weekend, at which, she writes, "Lisa Nakamura noted how many speakers had quoted poet, feminist and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde." The main...

At T, the New York Times's style magazine, M.H. Miller visits Steve Cannon, the poet and publisher who documented arts and culture from the Lower East Side with his influential magazine, A Gathering...

At Sydney Review of Books, Alys Moody contributes an article marking the significance of two recently published collections by Japanese modernist poets Chika Sagawa (translated by Sawako Nakayasu) and Hirato Renkichi (translated by Sho...

For her first entry as a Jacket2 guest commentator, poet Sandra Simonds looks again at John Ashbery's undersung, book-length poem, Girls on the Run (1999): "What I would like to argue in this...