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This morning PEN America announced the finalists for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards. Suzanne Nossel, PEN's executive director, remarks on the way the awards shine a light on "some of the...

"Haiku 'is a universal language of beauty and brevity,' the elements of life itself," said Jane Hirshfield this week at the Los Angeles Central Library, where she was joined by Víctor Terán...

Karen An-hwei Lee reviews Cole Swensen's newest book, On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017), for Kenyon Review. "[T]his volume of assorted ruminations on 'writers who walk' will delight the avid readers...

At The Guardian, John Dugdale writes about 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns's reputation, in somewhat of a decline after literary critics Liz Lochhead and Stuart Kelly's recent comments that the "romantic poet"...

At the LA Times, a video from the Sundance Film Festival reveals how director Sara Colangelo acquired the poetry she used in her film, The Kindergarten Teacher. Also seen here are...

We're saddened to learn of the passing of the masterful science fiction writer and poet Ursula K. Le Guin. The lone daughter of two acclaimed anthropologists, Le Guin's poetry and...

U.K. writer Rebecca Watts rethinks concepts of honesty and accessibility in poems by the likes of YouTube sensations (and commercial sensations) Rupi Kaur, Lang Leav, Kate Tempest, and Hollie McNish. "The Cult of...

Philadelphia poet and activist Kai Davis is the recipient of a Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation. Davis is a graduate of Temple University. As explained by the Leeway Foundation and...

This is a winner that you can–we believe–wrap your mind around. Inpatient Press of Brooklyn has published a novel rumored to be authored by Putin's former deputy chief of staff,...