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A review of Kevin Young's Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf) is up at 4Columns. "Young demonstrates how time and again Americans are...

For the Washington Post, Elizabeth Lund reviews thrice, looking at Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees (W.W. Norton), edited by Laren McClung, with a forward...

I can’t quite remember what brought up William Blake, or the poem known as “Jerusalem.” But suddenly, I was brought back to the Hubert Parry anthem setting of this poem....

Entropy presents Brenda Iijima's reportage after witnessing a performance work by Lara Mimosa Montes–author of The Somnambulist–in the Thinking Its Presence Conference in Tucson, Arizona, this October. "After brief opening remarks," writes...

At PBS Newshour, Alison Thoet visits The Keats Letters Project, an initiative bringing together 19th century English poet John Keats's letters to family and friends, written some 200 years ago,...

The magazine Yes Poetry has posted a review of Mónica de la Torre's The Happy End / All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). "Whether you see de la Torre’s vision as utopian ('A...

It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the ever-intrepid gourmand at the head of BlazeVOX, Geoffrey Gatz, presenting his Thanksgiving Menu Poem. As in year's past, Gatza invites a guest of honor...

At Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dave Harris reviews Marcus Wicker's latest collection, Silencer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). Harris writes that, at every turn, Wicker's verse upends readers' preconceived notions about race and culture. Harris: "The...

We're a bit late getting to this one, but we're sure Baudelaire can wait a week, given the fact that the consummate poète maudit has been deceased for 150 years...