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Paul Maziar looks at Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism (City Lights, 2016), "a collection of work by French poet Philippe Soupault, rendered into English mostly for the first time by...

Frontier Poetry editors, who bill their site as a "platform for emerging poets," spoke with Xandria Phillips, the Associate Poetry Editor of Winter Tangerine, about poetry rejections. "The community lifts itself...

PBS NewsHour's Elizabeth Flock speaks with poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, whose new collection, bone, describes the circumstances and aftermaths of sexual abuse. Flock discusses the connections between Daley-Ward's words and headlines...

Marty Cain checks out the latest by Swedish poet Aase Berg, Hackers, translated by Johannes Göransson and published by Black Ocean. The book engages with concepts and ideologies like feminism, surveillance culture,...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the October 2017 issue share some picks from their shelves. Geraldine Clarkson The eminently portable volumes of the...

In tandem with Communal Presence, this past weekend's New Narrative conference, Small Press Traffic—the San Francisco literary arts nonprofit that has been "helping writers break the rules since 1974"—announces a...

At Los Angeles Review of Books's blog, otherwise known as BLARB, Andy Fitch speaks with Daniel Borzutzky and Brenda Lozano about their organizing of the 2017 Lit & Luz Festival of Language,...

Over the span of a 60-plus year career, Richard Wilbur racked up two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award, our own Ruth Lilly Prize, and was named poet laureate of...

At Boston Review, Liz Bowen reviews Vievee Francis's new poetry collection Forest Primeval—an antipastoral that carries transcendentalism to the terrain of late capitalism. "An ambitious excavation of the rhetorics of...

This summer into early fall I received three gifts: a chapbook from Eléna Rivera, a chapbook from Brenda Iijima, and an anthology edited by Lisa Samuels and Sawako Nakayasu. I am...