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In an exhibition curated by Carolyn Vega at the Morgan Library & Museum, "No Refuge but Writing," the wanderlust of Tennessee Williams is on display alongside "rough drafts, scripts, programs, notebooks,...

The Bookseller reports that Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Penguin Random House U.K., will publish Jay Bernard's debut poetry collection, which draws "a line between two events: the New Cross...

At American Libraries, George M. Eberhart spends time with poet Elizabeth Acevedo in conjunction with her recent presentation at the American Library Association 2018 Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits in Denver. Acevedo delivered...

Jaime Zuckerman reviews Wendy Xu's Phrasis (Fence Books, 2017) for the current issue of Diode. "Her technique is something like linguistic cubism," writes Zuckerman in a consideration of Xu's fragmented "lines and...

As a child I belonged, absolutely, to everything. To color, to sound, to warmth, to my mother and the smell of her long purple dress with small crescent yellow moons,...

For Boston Review, Christopher J. Adamson reviews Marianne Moore's New Collected Poems, edited by Heather Cass White and published last year by FSG. "Complete Poems is—by Moore’s own design—far from complete; White’s New...

Michael Blanding contributes to the New York Times Books section an illuminating article about a source that informed many of William Shakespeare's plays and the plagiarism software that highlighted this surprising...

At Los Angeles Review of Books, Kevin McMahon reviews a new biography by Thomas Dilworth of David Jones. Jones, a Welsh modernist poet, is the author of In Parenthesis (1937). In his review,...

Kate Greenstreet's The End of Something (Ahsahta Press, 2017) is reviewed by Kylan Rice for the Carolina Quarterly. After praising the peopled quality of Greenstreet's readings, Rice notes that "[o]n the page,...

For the second issue of the new monthly review journal, 4squarereview, Thomas Cook reviews Jacqueline Waters's Commodore (Ugly Duckling Presse, Dec. 2017). "The brain, or the consciousness on the pages of...