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Literary Hub shares an essay by Bruce Snider about looking for queer verse set in rural America. Snider grew up in "a small Indiana...

From Robert Lax's affection for the circus to the details of his early childhood, a new biography of the beloved poet by Michael N....

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the September 2017 issue share some picks from their shelves. Kaveh...

The "stunning debut collection" from Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Button Press, 2017), is "written in blood," says Candace Williams in her review of...

Milkweed Editions announced today that the press will publish Max Ritvo's second collection of poems, The Final Voicemails, which will join Letters from Max, co-authored by Ritvo and...

Literary Hub hosts a conversation between William Brewer and Javier Zamora, who discuss the ways that their poetry illuminates and elaborates on contemporary issues...

At Literary Hub, Carina del Valle Schorske considers Gwendolyn Brooks's impact, long after her death, through  her revered protagonist, Maud Martha. "Maud Martha, the person,...

The New Yorker shines its light on Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora, whose debut collection, Unaccompanied, is just out from Copper Canyon. "These poems came to...

At Paris Review, Daniel Swift writes about finding a previously unpublished Ezra Pound poem in Schloss Brunnenburg castle. The discovery occured while Swift was...

PEN Center's 27th Annual Literary Awards Festival Winners have been announced; and winning for Poetry is Solmaz Sharif, who will receive the honor for her collection Look...