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On the occasion of Daniel Kane's newest critical study, "Do You Have a Band?": Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City (Columbia University Press, 2017), Andy Fitch speaks with Kane...

At The Bind, a "review site devoted to books of poetry by women and nonbinary authors," Joyelle McSweeney reviews Antígona González by Sara Uribe, translated by John Pluecker (Les Figues Press, 2016). It's...

Laurie Hertzel introduces Minnesota Star-Tribune readers to local Minneapolis poet, Danez Smith, in a recent article published online this week. Hertzel writes, "Smith doesn’t recite poems so much as live them,...

I hear my fellow writers discuss poetry as an art form that humanizes certain populations of disenfranchised people. I hear it said that poetry humanizes the victims of various horrendous...

Tracy K. Smith has officially signed in to her first day as U.S. poet laureate. The Washington Post followed Smith as she moved from the guest book at the Library...

Poet Donald Hall contributes an in-depth feature at the New Yorker about the ways that poetry intersects with death and loss. His own poetry, as he explains at the beginning of...

Los Angeles Review of Books has Lucy Mercer interviewing "a poet of 'visionary disposition,'" Spain-based Toby Martinez de las Rivas, whose second collection, Black Sun, is forthcoming in 2018 from Faber and Faber....

The National Poetry Series is a literary awards program that sponsors the publication of five books of poetry each year, as you may or may not know. And the awards for...

Tan Lin and Lucy Ives have been in conversation ever since Ives edited Lin's novella, The Patio and the Index, while it made its way to publication at Triple Canopy. At...

For the Atlantic's "By Heart" series, which focuses on authors divulging their "favorite passages in literature," Jenny Zhang, poet and most recently the author of Sour Heart shares her favorite passage...