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Thomas Simmons raves about Dylan Krieger's first collection, Giving Godhead (Delete Press, 2017), at the New York Times. To begin at the conclusion: "It is a bomb with an angel...

Headlines making waves: On Wednesday, CNN reporter Jim Acosta quoted the most famous couplet from Emma Lazarus's 1883 poem "The New Colossus" in a public disagreement with White House senior aide Stephen Miller. Newsweek reports...

At Hyperallergic, Megan N. Liberty reviews German poet and writer Ulf Stolterfoht's new Triple Canopy book, The Amme Talks, the text of which is translated by Shane Anderson, while Megan Ewing...

At Literary Hub, former Rookie magazine colleagues Monika Zaleska and Jenny Zhang reconnect to discuss Zhang's new collection of stories, Sour Heart—recently published by Lena Dunham's Lenny imprint (Random House)—and Zhang's trajectory from...

The Creative Independent interviews Precious Okoyomon about finding poetry in everything, her book Ajebota (Bottlecap Press, 2016), her writing process, the internet and being a contemporary poet, her recommended reading, and more. An...

David Orr traces the role poets sometimes take within American literature to write from areas of conflict, or about conflict. "War Poetry," today, is more often than not written in opposition to...

For the New Yorker's Culture Desk, Patti Smith recalls a lifetime of friendship with Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and actor, Sam Shepard, who passed away this week. Shepard of course was the...

We're re-reading poems "Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne)" and "Stagerlee wonders" by James Baldwin on account of his birthday (he would be 93 today)!  Jacket Copy is...

Library Journal Reviews collects 12 new poetry collections that may bring "fresh perspective on the human experience." Reviewed here are highly anticipated books like Dawn Lundy Martin's Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee...

The 2017 Arab American Book Award winners have been announced, with a ceremony to celebrate coming up in October. The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award went to Something Sinister (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016),...