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At Los Angeles Review of Books, Noah Blaustein reviews poet Christopher Merrill's latest title, a memoir, Self-Portrait with Dogwood. Blaustein navigates this pocket-size book, which takes the reader through a...

A recent University of Chicago Press book, Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, explores the dawn of the United States's Fulbright Scholar Program and its intended purpose, as...

At The Guardian, Carol Rumens nods to some of the year's greatest poetry hits from across the globe. Rumens notes that 2017 has been a year infused with a "sparky...

“On the Sunday of Lisa Robertson’s workshop the twenty-two of us crowded into TCR” shared space gradually fell quiet, captivated but confused by a series of trills and melodic whistles,"...

Every day for as far back as I’m willing to scroll, playwright and novelist Monica Byrne has posted to Instagram a handwritten note with the date and the simple declaration: “I...

At Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan meditates on Ezra Pound's controversial status in the literary canon and his relevance within recent debates regarding artistic merit and bad behavior by men. Her...

After more than twenty books of poetry, numerous awards, and obtaining a position central in American letters, Governor Jerry Brown has inducted Gary Snyder into the California Hall of Fame....

In a special issue of 4Columns, Maggie Nelson writes at length about Fred Moten's new book, Black and Blur (Duke University Press, 2017). The book, Nelson notes, is "the first of three...

Shin Yu Pai was featured at The Stranger last week, before presenting an animated poem—her largest project to date as Redmond, Washington's poet laureate—for the Redmond Lights festival, which took place on Saturday, December...

Aida Edemariam reads Jorie Graham's newest collection of poetry, FAST, at The Guardian. In her book, Graham gazes at her own mortality, writing around it in relation to current events. In...