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I met Julien only a few years ago through mutual friends who rightfully assumed we’d hit it off. One day, we took a stroll around the UC Berkeley campus as...

The Providence Journal shares a sweet remembrance of Mark Baumer, 33, who died in January while walking barefoot across the United States to "raise money and awareness around climate change."...

A new book by Bill Goldstein investigates English poetry and prose from the year 1922, a time when writers including Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and D.H. Lawrence began to craft...

Heather Treseler reviews Frank Bidart's Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 (FSG, 2017) for Boston Review. "His oeuvre, ten books now gathered in one 718-page volume, provides an incisive index of the latter half...

Poetry Northwest guest editor Jennifer Elise Foerster talks to Janice Gould about her recent chapbook, The Force of Gratitude (Headmistress Press, 2017), with a focus on the landscape of Northern...

Correspondent for Paris Review's blog, the Daily, Anthony Madrid shares a few words about poet H.D. in his recently published piece, "H.D. Notebook (Part 2)". In it, he wonders about the poet's publication history...

Lenny Letter has an excerpt of Chris Kraus's upcoming biography of Kathy Acker, as part of their "Lit Thursday." An excerpt of the excerpt of After Kathy Acker: Often she describes herself,...

Through a mixture of archival footage and contemporary interviews, documentary filmmaker Huang Ya-li paints a picture of the Le Moulin poets, active in modern Taiwan under Japanese rule, in a new documentary...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the July/August 2017 issue share some recommendations. So many contributors responded that we divided the list...