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In this weekend's edition of Hyperallergic, Marcella Durand carves a path for readers and gallery-goers alike, through Bernadette Mayer's Memory, a performance piece that debuted at Holly Solomon Gallery in...

At Meanjin Quarterly, Sydney-based poet and scholar Astrid Lorange is on the brink of a new, "massive" project that promises to look at poetry that takes legal documents as its source material. With a...

Last month I watched the film “I Am Not Your Negro”[1] and I dialed in as James Baldwin asked what it is about white people that their identity should need...

Fall is here and so is poetry! In the latest Boston Review digital edition, Ed Pavlić, Andrew Zawacki, Tomas Unger, Cassandra Cleghorn, and Cassandra Balzer review books by Andre Bradley, Barbara Claire Freeman, Maureen N. McLane, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and...

Susan Silas goes to see Bernadette Mayer's 1971 multimedia work Memory, currently on view at the CANADA gallery in New York. "Mayer shot a roll of 35 mm slide film...

Frank Bidart's hot off the presses Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016 is the subject of a review by poet Major Jackson in the New York Times's Books section. Of Half-Light, Jackson writes...

In a new iteration of the "PEN Ten," PEN America's weekly interview series, an interview is up with Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair! "Obsessions are influences—what are yours?" they ask. Sinclair's response, and...

At The Cut, Molly Fischer meets Instagram poetry sensation, Rupi Kaur, whose second, physical poetry collection, The Sun and Her Flowers, fell into the hands of amorous readers this week....

The New York Times reports today that poet and W. W. Norton editor Jill Bialosky, author of Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir (Atria Books, 2017), has been accused of plagiarism by...

For the newspaper's Voices of the City column, Jeffrey Fleishman speaks with Los Angeles's new poet laureate, Robin Coste Lewis, about her connection with the neighborhood of Compton and her journey...