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This week's New Yorker includes an article by Dan Chiasson about the "Great American Poet of Daily Chores," A.R. Ammons. Ammons was a child during the Depression and, Chiasson writes,...

Based in New York and born in the Philippines, Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the poetry collection Threshold (CavanKerry Press, 2017), among other works, and founder of Kundiman. Last week,...

U.K. poet Kim Moore has won the prestigious 2016 Geoffrey Faber memorial prize for her debut poetry collection, The Art of Falling (Seren Books, 2015), reports The Guardian. The book "covers everything from her...

1. I announce with a cry: Oh, to speak the light As light speaks into us, what do we say back into it. I have been on a nearly decade-long journey...

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn spends time with Imani Tolliver, author of debut memoir RUNAWAY: A Memoir in Verse, at Los Angeles Review of Books. Littlejohn foregrounds their conversation with a description of Tolliver's...

The Paris Review reanimates the early 1960s with a look into Tuli Kupferberg’s Yeah! magazine, which ran for ten issues starting in 1961, and which are all now collected in...

At New York Review of Books, Ange Mlinko observes the similarities between contemporary poet W.S. Merwin and his distant poetry predecessor, Dante Alighieri. Mlinko returned to Merwin's work unexpectedly en route...

In the Dec/Jan issue of Bookforum, Artforum editor David Velasco writes about his love for Kathy Acker: "[T]he thing that I love most about Acker is how well she understood the significance,...

Academy of American Poets presents a few of this year's most captivating reads in a new feature on its website. Included are collections by Danez Smith, Frank Bidart, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and...

New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird talks to The Guardian's Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett about her first book of poems, self-titled Hera Lindsay Bird. After two of her poems went viral, they gained "so much attention from...