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We mourn the loss of Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, who died today at the age of 103. John Otis at the Washington Post writes, Parra "revolutionized Latin American verse by...

Dawn Lundy Martin has penned a now-unpaywalled essay for issue 30 of n+1, called "When a Person Goes Missing." It moves in and around incarceration, missing-ness, and much, much else. An excerpt: Miss,...

For the BBC's Culture section, Joobin Bekhrad invites readers to explore the poetry of 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, and in particular, an edition of The Rubaiyat encrusted with semi-precious stones made by...

Sho Sugita and I met in graduate school at Brooklyn College, where he was studying poetry, and I was in the playwriting program. 

The 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists were announced today in New York. We'll take a look at their press release for a little background to the awards, then...

Emily Wallis Hughes, based now in New York, is featured in Sonoma Index-Tribune for her efforts to aid her hometown in the wake of the California wildfires, one of which...

At Hyperallergic, Michael Valinsky explores Maureen N. McLane's most recent collection of poetry, Some Say. McLane's poetry stems from inquiries into the Romantics, modernity, and landscapes. The poet explains "One can’t...

A conversation between friends: Bay Area poet Syd Staiti talked to New York's Ariel Goldberg about their book, The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016), for Literary Hub. "I wanted to...

Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog occasionally features online exclusives. This installment comes from The Collages of Helen Adam, just co-published by Further Other Book Works and Cuneiform Press. ​

Read about twin sisters Amanda and Gabrielle Gorman's collaborative poetry film, "Rise Up As One," at Bustle. Amanda, recently named the nation's first Youth Poet Laureate, reads her poem, also...