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We often wonder how exactly it is that poets come up with titles for their books. And we're not alone! At Chicago Review of Books, Sarah Blake ponders the same...

Today at The Nation, David Yaffe takes a look into the life of Elizabeth Bishop, and her lifelong feelings of profound loneliness, in his review of Megan Marshall's new biography Elizabeth...

Interviews abound! Critic Jonathan Farmer talks with his friend Gabrielle Calvocoressi, editor-at-large of Los Angeles Review of Books (where, naturally, this interview has a nice home) and author, most recently, of Rocket Fantastic (Persea...

Erika L. Sánchez speaks Safiya Sinclair's language, says the latter in an interview at Lit Hub that explores Sánchez's debut collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017). "Here the tongue divides across countries, across...

Hyperallergic has the scoop on an auction headed to Charterhouse Auctioneers and Valuers that promises to be a bit ghoulish. According to the story, up for auction is a cup,...

Trailblazing literary organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released its yearly findings from a study of the literary landscape in 2016. According to Amy King and Sarah Clark's introduction to...

For the past two years we've been reporting on the plight of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who was arrested and sentenced to death by Saudi Arabia in 2015 for denouncing...

In a special feature for the Fall 2017 issue of the Utne Reader, Tim Keane writes eloquently through three books about John Cage, including The Selected Letters of John Cage, edited by...

Purdue University Visiting Professor Kaveh Akbar is the subject of an interview by Susie Schmank about, among other topics,  the role that recovery from alcholism played in the development of his first...

In honor of Black Poetry Day, which is today, October 17, Nylon has asked 10 black poets to share, and write about, their favorite poems.  The holiday "was established in 1985 and...