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PEN Center's 27th Annual Literary Awards Festival Winners have been announced; and winning for Poetry is Solmaz Sharif, who will receive the honor for her collection Look (Graywolf) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel...

At Tablet, Shalom Goldman writes about Elisheva Bikhovsky's complex identity, and placement within Modern Hebrew Literature. To preface, Goldman begins: "Born into a Moscow family with a complex cultural and...

What do you get when you put a poet on a train? Well, if that poet is Joshua Beckman, you get "Train Films," which are three-minute films shot from a...

The New York Review of Books has published the last text written by poet and activist Liu Xiaobo, a devoted preface for a forthcoming photography collection by his wife, Liu Xia. "Although...

In an article published at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Evan Kindley discusses the ways that poets and poetry have become entangled with the academy. "It was, at one time,...

Breeze on over to Hyperallergic and take a gander at Alan Gilbert's recent article about Jeremy Sigler's My Vibe. The collection published by Spoonbill Books reminds Gilbert, he explains, of...

Up today at the Los Angeles Review of Books is Maddie Crum's look into Eileen Myles's latest book, Afterglow, with an eye toward Myles's ongoing project of capturing slices of...

Tripwire 13: Dialogues is a must-read this week, and hey, even after that! We're currently enthralled by Saretta Morgan's review of Douglas Kearney's Buck Studies, but there's much more, including Thom Donovan...

Christopher Richards reviews Nicole Sealey's first collection of poems, Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017) for 4Columns. "Despite being early in her career, Sealey bears the grace of a writer with full command...