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Ploughshares's Melissa Silverman explores Washington, DC's "literary loop," giving us the inside scoop on the city's increasingly independent, literary-minded, non-profit scene. "Each month, 826DC, a local branch of the student literacy...

Is this the beginning of a new movement in verse, or the start of a vicious poetry war? At The Guardian, Priya Khaira-Hanks observes a few of poet Rupi Kaur's...

At the Kenyon Review blog, Nathan Goldman looks at two books by poet and essayist Mary Ruefle, My Private Property (Wave, 2016), and On Imagination (Sarabande Books, 2017). The latter, Ruefle's newest,...

In The Guardian's Poetry section, Claire Armitstead tells the story of Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, the recipient of this year's Forward Prize for best first collection. Armitstead writes, "His debut collection, Night...

Emilia Phillips reviewed Morgan Parker's second book, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House, 2017), for the recent issue of Boston Review. Phillips thinks primarily about Parker's "unwavering instincts about the musical...

Lucy Ives and Andrew Durbin are both new novelists, having written Impossible Views of the World (Penguin, 2017) and MacArthur Park (Nightboat, 2017), respectively. Poetry Society of America spoke to both of...

We woke up to a dreary morning here in Chicago, but a refreshing ray of light shone upon us as we saw the finalists for the 2017 National Book Awards...

Kazim Ali, Silver Road (Tupelo Press) Cameron Barnett, The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water (Autumn House) Grace Bauer & Julie Kane  (editors), Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost...

National Public Radio introduces listeners to a new book in their future, co-written by the authors of the popular @Astropoets Twitter handle, poets Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky. The book isn't...

Over at LitHub, Nichole LeFebvre begins her thoughtful essay about the complex history of Sylvia Plath with an anecdote about teaching Plath's novel, The Bell Jar. "I leave my house wearing...