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Ryo Yamaguchi contributes a thoughtful response to Shane McCrae's latest collection, In the Language of My Captor, published by Wesleyan University Press, to Boston Review. By way of introduction, Yamaguchi writes, "all...

Oh, it's that time of the year again when we start to make the "best of" rounds. We'll start the season off with Elizabeth Lund's picks published yesterday at the...

We awoke this morning to the good news that Frank Bidart took home the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry for a book that could be regarded as the culmination...

In "Poet of Ill Tidings," Noah Isenberg writes about Bertolt Brecht's relationship with poetry from the dawn of the First World War. Isenberg's investigation is sparked by the publication of a...

Yesterday, we mentioned Isobel O'Hare's project, first posted on her Instagram, which breaks apart public figures' "apologies" for sexual misconduct into "severely felt erasures." Fast Company picked up on O'Hare's...

Fashion magazine Purple has chosen "On Radicality" for the theme of a Philosophy section in its 25th-anniversary issue. "How can one be radical today in a complex period when we need political change? Is it...

The History Channel debuts a new series called The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer this week. In the run-up, Brynn Holland and Missy Sullivan feature an AI software developer—and professor...

Last week, poets, publishers, and friends gathered at the Poetry Project in New York City to pay tribute to Joanne Kyger, who passed this April. The following is an expanded...

"Ursula Andkjær Olsen has reached an assured position as one of the most critically acclaimed poets in Denmark," writes Morten Høi Jensen in an introduction to an interview with the poet for...