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Ruth Franklin contributes a thoughtful article to the latest New Yorker about Mary Oliver's reputation among poetry scholars, readers, and the residents of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Franklin praises Oliver's new collection, Devotions...

The Trans Day of Resilience, celebrated today, November 20th, though young in its political mobility, is an urgently visible resistance to mortality-laced rhetoric around Trans life. This effort, nationally organized...

Abel Debritto, editor of the Charles Bukowski collection of formerly unpublished and uncollected poems, Storm for the Living and the Dead (Ecco, 2017), tells us the poet "was prolific beyond words," and pumped out over...

At Tablet, a beautiful account by Jake Marmer on his time with poet and retired co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, Norman Fischer. After spending a day at the Spirit Rock Center Meditation Center in Marin...

At the New Yorker, Hanif Abdurraqib reads Khadijah Queen's latest, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On, after encountering her poem "Any Other Name" in...

Up at the New York Review of Books is April Bernard's look into David Ferry's new translation of Virgil's Aeneid, a true classic. Bernard weighs Ferry's translating chops against the...

This week, in a serious move to end mass incarceration and make room for poetry in conversations around it, the Art for Justice Fund announced that the University of Arizona Poetry Center has received a $500,000...

NEA Fellowships in Creative Writing and Literary Translation for the fiscal year of 2018 have been announced! While any award from the $1.2 million pot of a poetry sort will have to wait...

We're saddened to learn that acclaimed Kansas City poet Michelle Boisseau passed away yesterday at the age of 62. The cause of death was lung cancer. The author of five books...