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Ian McGillis speaks with Sina Queyras at her home in Mile End for the Montreal Gazette. Queyras, whose new book, My Ariel (Coach House Books, 2017) is an "internalization and...

Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Sonnet L’Abbé’s poem “CXIV” appears in the December 2017 issue. Previous posts in this series can...

Atlas Obscura explores the world of poetry penned by robots, in a recent article by Jessica Leigh Hester. Although bots haven't (yet!) been able to write poetry that rivals humans',...

As we do every year, some members of the Poetry Foundation's staff share a book (or two) they enjoyed most in 2017. *** Beyza Ozer, Events & Logistics Assistant the magic my body...

At the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons, a new, two-volume collection; both volumes are foregrounded with an introduction by Helen Vendler. As Garner...

Poet and translator Fady Joudah writes at the Los Angeles Review of Books about the reality that Arab-American writers must contend with a thoughtless racism that permeates everything, including the world of letters. In...

Anthony Madrid, who reads one hundred books a year, takes on a close read (in the form of a notebook) of two collections by Nikki Wallschlaeger: Houses (Horse Less Press, 2015) and Crawlspace...

PBS NewsHour features two poems online to complement its latest reporting on the conflict between Israel and Palestine: "Palestine, Texas" by Fady Joudah and "In Jerusalem" by Mahmoud Darwish. (The latter...

Our congratulations go out to Adrian Matejka, who will be taking the reins as poet laureate of the Hoosier State. The Indiana Arts Commission reports: "Matejka was born in Nuremburg,...

In this week's issue of the New Yorker, Robyn Creswell looks at the culture that made the Syrian-born poet Adonis, his lifelong engagement with conflict and democracy, and his long-held stance...