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At the New Yorker, critic Dan Chiasson weighs in on Susan Howe's latest collection of poetry, Debths. Howe is, as Chiasson remarks, "among the worthiest heirs to the high-modernist line...

Is it for the best that Jeff Alessandrelli never met Bill Knott? It's hard to say. But at Literary Hub, he surmises this much, writing "I didn’t really know Bill Knott, not...

The New Inquiry's Keguro Macharia makes a gathering public, and is "trying to think with Audre Lorde’s work, to identify certain keywords." "Difference is one, survival is another," writes Machiara. "Related...

LitHub provides space for poet Jennifer Firestone to talk to MC Hyland about her newest book, Gates & Fields (Belladonna*, 2017), how it conjures Dickinson, and "takes on funeral practices and mourning with...

At the New York Times, Gwendolyn Brooks is the subject of a review by Claudia Rankine, who directs Times readers to two freshly-published anthologies inspired by Brooks's fantastically rich oeuvre. The Golden Shovel Anthology,...

When I decided to do this series of interviews based on how poet and scholar Tyrone Williams defines and depicts our "generations" in his intro to mary wants to be...

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte divulges a few of the secrets behind the North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library's Tuesday poetry night circle. The weekly event,...

Twitter's infamous Astro Poets have landed a book deal with Random House, reports Elle. "And yes, they are actually poets, with seven published collections between them," writes Estelle Tang of Alex...