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Michael Tate writes about Czech poet, translator, and artist Bohuslav Reynek, whose work has been collected in The Well at Morning: Selected Poems, 1925–1971 (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2018), translated by Justin Quinn, "whose lyrical...

The Atlantic gives us the story behind Emma Lazarus's 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus,” the words of which have "seemed more visible since Donald Trump’s election." More, from poet and scholar Walt...

Last year I had a strange set of experiences wherein three different, new-to-me people I brought home on separate occasions each started ruminating aloud, post-coitally, about how they’d been thinking...

At Connecticut magazine, learn about a new anthology published by Beacon Press called Bullets Into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. The anthology is the product of a collaboration...

United States Artists today announced their 2018 Fellows. Each fellow will receive an unrestricted grant of $50,000. Among this year's class of creative individuals are poets Fred Moten and Molly...

At SF Gate, learn about the state of Ohio's new poet laureate, David Lucas. Lucas teaches classes at Case Western Reserve University, including one called "Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry." In...

Author and professor Cristina Rivera Garza suggests 12 female Spanish-language writers who "defy easy classification" and "all deserve a place in your reading list." Among them, poet Sara Uribe, whose book Antígona González was...

Oh, goodness gracious: BOMB issue #142 features an interview with none other than Friederike Mayröcker! Translator Jonathan Larson, whose translation of Mayröcker's Scardanelli is forthcoming from The Song Cave, called up the extraordinarily prolific poet...

At NPR, Jeevika Verma introduces readers to Kaveh Akbar and his interview website, DiveDapper. A way for Akbar to meet and converse with established poets while his writing was emerging, DiveDapper "grew out...

Today in London, Ocean Vuong was honored with the T.S. Eliot Prize for his debut collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds. As Sian Cain at The Guardian reports, "Vuong is...