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Julie Enszer has been haunted by Gwendolyn Brooks, she writes at The Rumpus. "It is like she is just around every corner. Lurking in the back of my mind. I...

Upon the publication of his debut collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017), Kaveh Akbar reflects on his family's "streamlining" of their prayer habits upon coming to America...

Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Tyler Mills’s two visual poems from her “Afterimage” series appear in the September 2017 issue. Previous posts in...

Legendary poet Nikki Giovanni joins host Krista Tippett for a conversation on the syndicated National Public Radio program On Being, wherein they discuss politics, spirituality, and the stars. Tippett prefaces their...

Rejoice: The Believer Logger interviews Kevin Killian! "In a sexier and more exciting world, Kevin Killian would be a household name," ​writes Cam Scott, who caught up recently with the poet, writer,...

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled programming for this extra-special, extraordinary hurrah! The National Book Foundation announced the names of ten poets who comprise the longlist for the 2017 National Book Award...

[Editor’s Note: This past summer, as John Ashbery was turning 90, Daniel Brian Jones contacted a group of poets, musicians, and artists, John Ashbery included, to read excerpts from his...

Literary Hub presents an excerpt from a new book of Audre Lorde's essays called A Burst of Light and Other Essays, published recently by Ixia Press. In this excerpt, Lorde...

In a New York Times "Saturday Profile" that focuses on Australia, Charlotte Graham revisits Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, who is stateside this week to receive the prestigious Windham-Campbell writing prize. Cobby Eckermann's...

At the New Yorker, Dan Chiasson provides a sterling reevaluation of W.S. Merwin's poetry... and island-lifestyle. The well-anthologized poet, who turns ninety this year, "has for decades written his scanty, unpunctuated...