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Chicago is celebrating two grand anniversaries this year: 1) Gwendolyn Brooks's centennial and 2) Pablo Picasso's iconic sculpture in Daly Plaza turns the big five-oh. Our friends at DNAinfo remind...

Anastacia-Reneé, (v.) (Gramma Poetry) Simon Armitage, The Unaccompanied (Knopf) Gennady Aygi, Time of Gratitude (New Directions) Victoria Bean, Liberties (Smokestack Books) Lisa Bickmore, Ephemerist (Red Mountain Press) Chana Bloch, The Moon is Almost Full (Autumn...

Patrick Pritchett reviews poet Keith Jones's newest book of poems, Fugue Meadow (Ricochet Editions, 2016), at Journal of Poetics Research, a peer-reviewed magazine of literary discourse hosted by Australian Literary Management. The...

At Literary Hub today, readers can revisit John Berger's 2008 writings after the death of poet Mahmoud Darwish. Darwish, a Palestinian poet who lived in exile after his village was razed...

NYR Daily's Christopher Benfey considers the musicality of Georg Trakl's poems, noting that "James Reidel’s recently completed three-volume translation of Trakl’s major work, timed to coincide with the centennial of...

If you snoozed through those survey classes, it might be because your teacher didn't mention how swashbuckling Aphra Behn really was. At Literary Hub, Janet Todd muses on Behn's lesser-known...

All you merry hipsters put down your hacky sacks and load Spin on your internet machines—you're in for a wild ride! This week a kind soul uploaded two previously unavailable Bob...

You might be as astonished as we are to learn that poet Reginald Dwayne Betts is having difficulty getting his law career off the ground, due to an obstacle thrown...

Poets Hayan Charara and Patricia Smith met "in the rapids of an email exchange" for The Lifted Brow #34, as part of the magazine's Poets in Conversation series. Charara, whose most recent, award-winning...