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At the New Yorker, Dan Chiasson introduces a new volume of Joan Murray's poetry, a complete poems, edited by poet Farnoosh Fathi, who, as the publisher notes, "has gone through...

Barbara Berman moves us from the get-go with her introduction to a review of Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erin Mouré (Wesleyan University Press, 2017): "When a writer has exceptionally acute feelings...

John Vincler considers works by Susan Howe, including Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives, underlining the poet's engagement with archives. "It is as if Howe has sought to take the experience...

In a double-review for the winter issue of the U.K.'s Poetry Review, Dai George looks at Tyehimba Jess's Olio (Wave Books, 2016) and Harmony Holiday's Hollywood Forever (Fence, 2017), with an eye on "an increasingly vital hybrid...

Paige Lewis pens the Poetry contributor guest post for the January 2018 issue. 

At the New York Times, Rachel Syme speaks with poets Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky about their Twitter handle @astropoets and its origins. The poet-astrologers' NYT profile comes on the eve of their forthcoming...

Worldcrunch reports on the danger and secrecy involved in the writing of poetry by women in Afghanistan. Mudassar Shah reminds readers: "Under Taliban rule, from 1996 to 2001, public life...

John Godfrey's The City Keeps: New and Selected Poems 1966-2014 (Wave Books, 2016) opens a door for Stan Mir to talk about the poet, at Hyperallergic. "For the majority of his writing life, Godfrey...

Ben Shields met with translator and UPenn professor Emily Wilson to talk about her translation of The Odyssey (W.W. Norton, 2017), which Shields notes is the first of its kind, in...

The theater installation Native Guard, inspired by Trethewey's poem of the same name, opens at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia on January 13th. At American Theatre, Trethewey speaks with Rob Weinert-Kendt...