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The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania site on which the childhood home of Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) once stood is to be declared a literary landmark, reports The Morning Call. "While she labored over many of her...

At Hyperallergic, Marcella Durand guides readers through Samiya Bashir's recent book, Field Theories. In verse, Bashir considers multiple realities through the lens of race and class, questioning dominant narratives. "Starting...

Late last week, we found out the names of the poets who will make up the class of 2017 for this year's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows....

Ahead of Danez Smith's reading at Black Dog Cafe in St. Paul, Minnesota, City Pages hosts Erica Rivera's conversation with Smith about identifying as a queer, HIV-positive poet, and about their experiences in literature...

Lily Blacksell interviews poet and novelist Luke Kennard, who also holds the title of  "Canal Laureate" (it's a U.K. thing), for Boston Review. What does it all mean? Or as Kennard...

Get thee to the new issue of Bookforum for Melissa Broder's review of Eileen Myles's Afterglow (a dog memoir) (Grove Press, like now). "Afterglow portrays a complex and often hilarious relationship between two animals, characterized by...

From the Nerdette podcast at WBEZ, Tracy K. Smith joins a conversation with Greta Johnsen and Tricia Bobeda about her early years as a poet and poetry's importance in everyday...

Before starting to write this essay, I simply typed into Google: "What is the etymology of 'politics'?" Below are the results that I received. Then I looked at the webpage...

Yesterday, we received the devastating news of the death of John Ashbery, a poet whose seemingly boundless imagination opened more avenues of exploration for generations of poets and readers alike than possibly...