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Troy Jollimore reviews Jonathan Blunk's new biography of poet James Wright for the Washington Post's Books section. As Jollimore explains, Wright's poetry had a "dynamic energy," the result of his...

At the BBC, Benjamin Ramm discusses why "tyrants," "megalomaniacs," and "dictators," such as Nero, Stalin, and Mussolini opted to write verse. Ramm leads with this remark: "Poetry is an art of refinement,...

And over at Entropy, don't mind if we do: Will Alexander's entry in the "creative nonfiction" section is "Our Present Psychic State: An Awkward Foreboding," an essay that begins with an epigraph...

Doreen Carvajal writes for the New York Times about Federico García Lorca's Andalusia, where he set his play, "Blood Wedding," "based on the crime story in 1928 of a runaway bride...

At Literary Hub, poet Spencer Reece discusses his experience teaching poetry (and translation) at Our Little Rose's Home For Girls in Honduras. "The girls grow articulate and more confident. Poetry...

At The Guardian, Kate Kellaway looks into Sinéad Morrissey's latest collection, On Balance, which won the 2017 Forward Prize. As Kellaway notes, it's "a collection that keeps extending itself and...

Over the weekend, musician and writer Franz Nicolay wondered at LARB about the proper relationship between pop music and literature. In so doing, Nicolay considered three books: Daniel Kane’s “Do You Have A Band?”: Poetry...

Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Duy Doan’s poems “Rickshaw Boy” and “Mother’s Dirge” appear in the October 2017 issue. Previous posts in...

At the New Republic, Rachel Stone discusses the popularity of the poetic technique of erasure during the 45th president's rise to power. She begins with a nod to Niina Pollari's...