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A review has rolled in for CAConrad's newest book of poems, While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017), and it's a beaut. After quoting Franco Berardi on emotion...

Marta Bausells interviews Instagram poet (and former model) Yrsa Daley-Ward, the author of new poetry collection, bones. Daley-Ward cites poets Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni as influences. "Many of Daley-Ward's poems are short...

For our October 2017 playlist, we asked contributor Duy Doan to curate a selection of music for us. You can read about his approach to creating the playlist below. Click here...

At the Star Tribune, Mark Gustafson takes a look into Jonathan Blunk's recent biography of poet James Wright. Gustafson makes note of Wright's most anthologized poems, including "A Blessing," "Milkweed,"...

This week, at Social Text, Lukas Moe reviewed Richard Owens's No Class (Barque Press, 2012). That this piece comes four years post-publication doesn't mean the subject's not evergreen. "Living in semi-rural Maine...

In the latest news surrounding the pushback against gentrification in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Semiotext(e) canceled the launch of Chris Kraus's biography of Kathy Acker at the gallery 356 S. Mission...

For Vice's Motherboard, Mariana Fernandez talks with Allison Parrish, a digital artist who chose Twitter as a platform for her poems, which fuse the constraints of computer code with the...

Jill Bialosky has found some support as she combats recent accusations of plagiarism. In a letter to the editor published this week, Kimiko Hahn and David Baker write that "it bears...

Book critic Parul Sehgal reviews The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956 (HarperCollins, 2017) for the New York Times. Of note is the introduction by Plath and Ted Hughes's daughter, Frieda Hughes,...