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Robert P. Baird contributes a fabulous article for Esquire about incoming New Yorker Poetry editor, Kevin Young, which puts the celebrated poet, scholar, and editor into context within the larger framework...

At Los Angeles Review of Books, Nathan Scott McNamara reviews the newest installment to Renee Gladman's Ravicka series, Houses of Ravicka (Dorothy, 2017). Gladman's series shifts the boundaries between poetry and...

Paul E. Nelson visited Brenda Hillman at her home in Northern California and had a lovely conversation about her most recent book, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan, 2013). You can...

First of all, for the first time it's translated by a woman, as Wyatt Mason points out at the New York Times. Emily Wilson, the epic poem's newest translator, is...

I like how poetry comes over the transom—that’s how it happens to me, and I imagine it’s not dissimilar for a lot of people. You happen to see a poem...

Ethiopian News outlet Borkena reports that prominent Ethiopian poet Solomon Deressa has died at the age of 80. "He lived in the United States since the 1980’s and died in...

For the New York Times's Education Life column, Erik Gleibermann examines bilingual M.F.A. programs with an emphasis on the University of Texas at El Paso's program. Bilingual poet Alessandra Narváez-Varela enrolled after...

Up this week at the Cordite Poetry Review is a thoughtful conversation (and introduction) between Chi Tran and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. Tran sets up the interview by thinking through questions of...

At Jacket2, Davy Knittle writes about Sue Landers's Franklinstein, or the Making of a Modern Neighborhood (Roof Books, 2016), "a preservationist project that details where bodies have come into or avoided contact...

Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology (Columbia University Press) Erin Adair-Hodges, Let's All Die Happy (University of Pittsburgh Press) Sebastian Agudelo, The Bosses (Saturnalia) Will Alexander, Across the Vapour Gulf (New Directions) James...