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In the current issue of American Poetry Review, Utah poet laureate Paisley Rekdal extends her composition of the poem "Philomela," in which the rape of Philomela by her brother-in-law Tereus is left...

Mary Jo Bang's latest collection, A Doll for Throwing (Graywolf, 2017), was inspired by Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy (1894–1989). Next year's Bauhaus centenary celebration (in Germany) will include Moholy's work. At the Paris Review Daily, Bang...

Unfortunately, a new television series devoted to reimagining William Shakespeare's teenage years has been canceled after just one season. The program, Will, aired on TNT, as we made mention of...

At the New Yorker, Hilton Als serves as an informative (and generous) guide through Frank Bidart's recently published Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). "No matter how you slice...

At The Guardian's Books blog, John Dugdale nods to the various sides of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet whose "influence continued into the 70s with Patti Smith and John Cooper-Clarke,...

Fret not, devoted followers of George Oppen! For years, scholars have presumed that much of Oppen's writings prior to the classics, The Materials and Of Being Numerous, were lost in...

This week it was announced that President Trump is moving to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), a program that allows nearly 800,000 people protection from deportation and the...

Poetic Associations: The Nineteenth-century English Poetry Colletion of Dr. Gerald N. Wachs (University of Chicago Library) Michael Bazzett, The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions) Bruce Beasley, All Soul Parts Returned (BOA Editions Ltd.) Frank Bidart,...

The poet John Clare made the rapid transfer of the present believable, wrote John Ashbery in an introduction to the central, off-center Clare in Other Traditions, since for Clare—a minor key...

Brian Blanchfield's collection of essays, Proxies (Nightboat, 2016), received a couple of new reviews this past week (perhaps due to the recent publication of its U.K. edition). At the Financial Times, Houman Barekat writes...