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Poet, former DC poet laureate, and Phillips Exeter Academy instructor Dolores Kendrick passed away this week at the age of 90. Kendrick penned five books of poetry and, as her obituary...

Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence (YesYes Books, 2017) is reviewed by Calista McRae at Boston Review. "The book’s disclosures are grounded in this profoundly unsettling mixture of authority and uncertainty,"...

For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Christopher Watkin takes a look at Kevin Hart's Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2017), "a volume comprised largely of collected talks and reworked articles dating from...

For our November 2017 playlist, we asked contributor Roy G. Guzmán to curate a selection of music for us. You can read about his approach to creating the playlist below. Click...

At Literary Hub, Christopher Grobe wonders why confessional poetry became such a bad word in literary circles and reflects on the poetic form's ties to reality television. "Our current culture...

We can collectively cry, "What The Fugs!" on this story. Over at Vice magazine's Noisy music section, Jason Leopold recounts his time digging into FBI files hoping to break on...

No, this is not like the Neruda saga. We're talking about resurrecting the original POEMS as written by Charles Bukowski. At PBS NewsHour, Elizabeth Flock writes about scholar Abel Debritto's...

In another news day where Canada funds the arts: CBC Books announces the 33 poets who have made the longlist for the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize! "The winner will receive $6,000 from the...

Why no, we can't get enough of Kevin Young. At the New York Times, Matthew Schneier talks to the poet, curator, and new New Yorker editor about his upcoming book, Bunk: The Rise...

Literary Hub shares Ocean Vuong's recent conversation with the staff of Freeman's about books he's read, he wishes he'd read, and "the notion of art-making as possession and conquest." With Freeman's,...