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At the Los Angeles Times, poet and novelist Idra Novey reads poet Luke Kennard's first book of prose, a novel called The Transition. Novey begins the review by exploring other poets' transitions between...

The New York Times Magazine features essayist Leslie Jamison writing about the phenomenon of female anger. She discusses "the slew of news stories accrued last fall," and has ensuing questions....

"Risk Pool," a new issue of Triple Canopy guest-edited by Corrine Fitzpatrick, asks questions around the effects and shapes of defining wellness and sickness. "How do various conceptions of malaise and...

The BBC posts a remembrance about poet Jenny Joseph, whose writing rose to prominence with her poem "Warning." Joseph passed away at 85. As the BBC's article explains, "Warning was twice...

At the Irish Times, Mary O'Donnell discusses the "prosaic lack of women" in the recently published Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets. "You imagine certain things have been achieved, or understood....

PBS's Patty Gorena Morales meets with Northern California poet Javier Zamora to discuss the Trump Administration's recent decision to end an amnesty program that enabled thousands of El Salvadorans to relocate to...

At Essay Daily, Alexis Almeida shares some fragments about her translating of Argentine poet Roberta Iannamico’s Tendal. "I’m sitting on a bed surrounded by papers. Within a week of first reading Tendal I’ve drafted...

At the Toronto Star, Alana Wilcox, Editorial Director of Coach House Books, explains to Books Editor Deborah Dundas why the Toronto-based publishing house will take a temporary hiatus from accepting poetry...

Yesterday, Claremont Graduate University announced the finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. The Kingsley is awarded to a mid-career poet and comes with...

The Poetry Society of America announced today that Ron Padgett has been awarded the organization's highest award offered annually, the 2018 Frost Medal, intended to distinguish lifetime achievement in poetry. Previous winners of...