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Literary Hub posts Kelly Coyne's recent ruminations on Sylvia Plath's legacy, as revealed by a freshly-surfaced treasure trove of her "formerly obscured" letters. According to Coyne, "2017 has been an...

On a recent episode of the Poetry Magazine Podcast, we discussed Harmony Holiday’s poem “Sex tape or Future and Audre Lorde fall in love.” Holiday then wrote to us to...

U.K. poet Danny Hayward's newest book, I/II (Shit Valley Verlag, 2017), is a "singular textual object," writes David Grundy for Intercapillary Space, Edmund Hardy's "rolling poetry zine with an emphasis on...

Poet and Academy of American Poets Executive Director Jen Benka believes poetry can change the world, says Ruben Quesada at Chicago Review of Books, where the two minds have met for...

At Los Angeles Review of Books, you can read Patrick Kurp's take on a new collection of interviews with formalist poets called Thirteen on Form: Conversations with Poets. The compilation of...

Elizabeth Lund's monthly column at the Washington Post praises new collections of writing by poets Mary Oliver, Nikki Giovanni, and Maggie Smith. Lund begins with an analysis of Mary Oliver's latest,...

Posted today at My Poetic Side, Joanne Jeffries considers the work of 61 poets who have spent time in prison for reasons ranging from robbery to draft dodging to throwing...

Poet Nick Sturm spoke with Alice Notley on the occasion of Fonograf Editions's release of Notley's LP, Live in Seattle, which contains recordings of poems from her book, Certain Magical Acts (Penguin, 2016). "Because she is an incredibly...

Nice news in Canadian publishing: This year's finalists for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, "which presents $4,000 annually to the author–and $500 to the publisher–of an exceptional poetry chapbook released in Canada...