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Chinese poet, critic, and translator Yu Guangzhong has died at the age of 89 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, reports the New York Times. "Mr. Yu was a young college student in mainland China...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the December 2017 issue share some recommendations. Cynthia Arrieu-King I’ve returned several times to “Longest Month” by Oki...

Kenyon Review's December micro-reviews are up, featuring new books by Nicole Cooley, Mary Hickman, Erika L. Sánchez, Kamilah Aisha Moon, and others, penned by a variety of reviewers. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers takes on Moon's...

Literary Hub has poets Chen Chen and Craig Perez in conversation this week, helpfully guiding us to what's most exciting in and around contemporary Asian/Pacific/American (APA) poetries. An excerpt from their interview: [Craig Perez:]...

Wow! Congratulations to Lisa Robertson, the inaugural recipient of a new $40,000 prize created by the Foundation for Contemporary Art with funds from artists Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) and Jack Shear, in memory...

PEN America announced the semi-finalists for the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards, which include the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, PEN Open Book Award, PEN Translation Prize, PEN/Diamondstein...

Poet Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is the subject of an interview at the Creative Independent about his recent "cross-over" to prose, a 2017 collection of essays They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kills...

The Asian American Writers' Workshop hosts a conversation between Chen Chen and Yanyi about family, queer identity, and Chinese culture. Yanyi, a 2017-2018 Asian American Writers' Workshop Margins Fellow, heard Chen Chen's...

Circulating around the interwebs this week, you may have seen news of the manuscript scroll of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom being declared a national treasure...

"History is time that won’t quit," writes Joyelle McSweeney in a new essay at Fanzine that suggests poetry as a mode for "Hearing into Presence the dead and their inverted (because posthumous)...