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Matthew Shenoda contributes a stellar article to World Literature Today, spotlighting the work of several contemporary African women writers, including Ladan Osman and Aracelis Girmay, who have benefited from the...

Emily O'Neill considers the poetic form of the acrostic as it proliferates across several Trump-admin resignation letters, most notably in a recent statement from the President’s Committee on The Arts and The...

The Ploughshares blog brings us an interview with the inimitable Erín Moure, whose Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure, edited by Shannon Maguire, was published in March by Wesleyan University Press. Moure...

Aase Berg's newest book, Hackers (Black Ocean, 2017), translated by Johannes Göransson, is reviewed by Dylan Krieger for Entropy. "[R]ather than limit the translation’s verbiage to words already accepted and normalized as...

Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Kimiko Hahn’s poem “Foreign Body” appears in the July/August 2017 issue. This lecture was presented at the Asian American Literature...

Meanwhile, at Hyperallergic, Iris Cushing discusses Renee Gladman's new book, Prose Architectures. The book, comprised entirely of drawings, paints a vivid (urgent) portrait of the space in between, as Cushing...

David Kirby, at the New York Times, wonders why writers write. Is it out of trauma or jealousy, or simply because of one's proximity to a window with a view?...

I have never been to Ontario. My only experience with Canada occurred a couple decades ago: we drove from Hemet, California to Victoria, British Columbia in a Ford Bronco. I...