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A bulk of poetry published by incarcerated people in the age of mass incarceration can be found in anthologies specifically dedicated prison writing.

Literary Hub shares an essay by Bruce Snider about looking for queer verse set in rural America. Snider grew up in "a small Indiana town famous for 70-pound cantaloupe grown...

From Robert Lax's affection for the circus to the details of his early childhood, a new biography of the beloved poet by Michael N. McGregor is the focus of an...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the September 2017 issue share some picks from their shelves. Kaveh Akbar I feel like, while our nation...

The "stunning debut collection" from Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Button Press, 2017), is "written in blood," says Candace Williams in her review of the book at The Fanzine. "I...

Milkweed Editions announced today that the press will publish Max Ritvo's second collection of poems, The Final Voicemails, which will join Letters from Max, co-authored by Ritvo and Sarah Ruhl, on the roster. Milkweed...

Literary Hub hosts a conversation between William Brewer and Javier Zamora, who discuss the ways that their poetry illuminates and elaborates on contemporary issues like the opioid epidemic and international...

At Literary Hub, Carina del Valle Schorske considers Gwendolyn Brooks's impact, long after her death, through  her revered protagonist, Maud Martha. "Maud Martha, the person, exceeds Maud Martha, the project. Of course,...

The New Yorker shines its light on Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora, whose debut collection, Unaccompanied, is just out from Copper Canyon. "These poems came to him in short, uncontrollable bursts; they...

At Paris Review, Daniel Swift writes about finding a previously unpublished Ezra Pound poem in Schloss Brunnenburg castle. The discovery occured while Swift was researching Pound's years at St. Elizabeth's...