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Will Alexander's newest poetry collection, Across the Vapour Gulf (New Directions, 2017), siphons inspiration from the writings of M. Cioran, a writer who bore "nihilistic gloom that pervaded every word...

Teresa Sullivan, the president of University of Virginia, is the recipient of an open letter from poet and UVA alumna Kiki Petrosino, who called on Saturday for a reconsideration of official statements the...

Back in June, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced their longlist for the 2017 National Translation Awards. Now they're back with a shortlist, this time for the Lucien Stryk...

For our July/August 2017 playlist, we asked contributor Tarfia Faizullah to curate a selection of music for us. You can read about her approach to creating the playlist below. Click here...

Claire Schwartz interviews poet and 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow jayy dodd, author of, most recently, [sugar in the tank] (Pizza Pi Press, 2016), Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017), and The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Siren Song/CCM...

Literary Hub shares writer and theorist Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's introduction to Nanni Balestrini's Blackout, recently published by Commune Editions. Berardi writes that Balestrini's prose and poetry "can be useful" if we want...

Creative Independent spends time with Matthew Zapruder, author of the recent collection of essays Why Poetry?, to discuss his writing process and the importance of literary community. Zapruder explains that...

Writer Porochista Khakpour considers masculinity and the politics of the male body as they play out in the work of five poets — Alex Dimitrov, Chen Chen, Chiwan Choi, Kaveh Akbar, and Danez Smith—for Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR). Khakpour acknowledges the complications...