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At PBS NewsHour, Jennifer Hijazi researches the origins of Nuyorican Poets Cafe and asks what exactly it feels like today to be Puerto Rican living in the United States after Hurricane...

In Search of Mary Shelley: the girl who wrote Frankenstein is to be published by Pegasus Books in June (and this month in the U.K.), and we're happy to have landed on...

In a conversation with Mark Sussman for the Creative Independent, John Keene discusses the power of fiction and what it draws from translation, contemporary politics, and how he maintains his...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the January 2018 issue share some recommendations.

Ann Hulbert is the author of Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies (Picador, 2017). At Literary Hub, readers can read a fragment of the book centered...

Literary luminaries including Andrew Motion and Alan Moore are among the voices decrying a potential loss of funding to the Northamptonshire library where 19th-century poet John Clare's archives are held.  The Guardian's Alison...

Ruben Quesada presents some choice thinking from Asymptote Journal's poetry editor, Aditi Machado, for Chicago Review of Books's ongoing "Dear Poetry Editor" series. "Machado is the author of Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017) and the translator...

After Ocean Vuong's recent round table discussion at Yale, Alexandra Barylski sat down with the poet to talk about race, class, queerness, and his commitment to meditation in an otherwise very...

At Hyperallergic, Anselm Berrigan reviews Mónica de la Torre's sixth collection of poetry, The Happy End/All Welcome, and her first to be published by Ugly Duckling Presse. The collection begins,...