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At Los Angeles Review of Books, Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley's Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture (Harvard University Press, 2017), a book which aims to tell how it came to be that so...

Jennifer Schuessler spends a moment with scholar Jonathan Senchyne, who recently located new documents in nineteenth-century slave and poet George Moses Horton's own handwriting, within the stacks of the New York Public...

At the New Yorker, Dan Chiasson writes about Danez Smith's third collection of poetry (and the first to be published by Graywolf), Don't Call Us Dead. Smith is the recipient of fellowships...

Don Mee Choi spent last December in Seoul for a translation residency funded by the Korea Literature Translation Institute (LTI-Korea); and in a new Bagley Wright Lecture, "Wings of Return: Yi Sang’s...

Your Google Doodle of the day is none other than Gloria E. Anzaldúa, on the occasion of her 75th birthday. The award-winning poet, teacher, and theorist died in 2004. At...

Lucy Ives has reviewed the Jewish Museum's Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, a survey of the Rochester-born poet, artist, set- and costume-designer's paintings and drawings that attempted to cast Stettheimer into the serious leagues, but was instead,...

At Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon spends a moment with children's book author Chris Harris, who recently penned I'm Just No Good at Rhyming. Simon starts out noting the obvious, then...

McAlester News shares a profile of Oklahoma State Cowboys's D-lineman Trey Carter, who is an avid writer of poetry, particularly ballads. His practice is informed by daily observations, reflecting on the world...

Of note today is Joe Luna's essay for Chicago Review, "Unanswerable Questions," in which the Brighton-based poet, editor and professor "examines the rhetoric of the erotetic in contemporary British and American...

BBC News reports that the Forward Arts Foundation Prizes have been announced! The Felix Dennis Prize for best first collection (£5,000) goes to Ocean Vuong, for Night Sky with Exit Wounds;...