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BBC News adds another kernel to the mystery surrounding legendary Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's death. Although authorities have claimed that he died of cancer, a recent exhumation suggests something closer...

At Boston Review, Rob Crawford reviews Alan Felsenthal's Lowly, which came out from Ugly Duckling Presse earlier this year. The book "bypasses many of contemporary poetry’s usual movements, feints, and...

Rupi Kaur isn’t just Instagram-famous, she’s famous-famous. Apparently outselling Homer, this young woman of color from the suburbs of Toronto has become a global phenomenon in two short years. Like...

For the Los Angeles Review of Books's blog, BLARB, Andy Fitch interviews Andrew Epstein about his new book, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture....

Sandeep Parmar writes at The Guardian about this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist, which is ruefully lacking in diversity. Out of 10 collections, only "the much-acclaimed Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong"...

At SupChina, Anthony Tao documents his recent visit with Tracy K. Smith—in the back of a van in Beijing where Smith made one of her first overseas appearances since becoming...

Claire Donato takes on, as she has described it, "wine, desire, philosophy, sickness, [sic]-ness, the void, linguistic non-neutrality, how liquid sucks our tongues, dehydration's death/depths, and alcohol's emotional qualities (e.g.,...

At Origins, Matthew Krajniak joins Sarah Browning, co-founder and Executive Director of Split This Rock, to talk about her second full-length collection, Killing Summer, published by Sibling Rivalry Press. "In this...

On the occasion of her new book, Prose Architectures, Renee Gladman joins writer Drew Zeiba at Pin-up magazine for a conversation about interactions between prose, architecture, and the body as it...