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Diana Hamilton's The Awful Truth (Golias Books, 2018) is reviewed by Ryo Yamaguchi for the Michigan Quarterly Review, and it's a rigorous, insightful read. Yamaguchi notes the...

For their Spring 2018 issue, The Poetry Society invited poets Harmony Holiday, Choman Hardi, and Wendy Cope to write a "poetry manifesto." Holiday's, titled "Somebody who loves me," is up...

Noel Black reviews new chapbooks by Stephanie Young and Ryan Eckes in this weekend's Hyperallergic. As Black explains, "Apropos of labor, both Young and...

At the New York Times, Kate Bolick reports on the results of a London auction, where participants had the unique opportunity to purchase items that...

I've been thinking about race and politics a lot. And the ancestors. And what it means to not just survive. Surviving beyond Black power...

In the new issue of Bookforum, Emily LaBarge writes "A Poet of the Archives," which considers Susan Howe's relationship to the archive, and her recent...

FSG's Work in Progress, "a compendium of original works, exclusive excerpts, and interviews with authors from Farrar, Straus and Giroux," features an essay on...

“Can poetry hurt us?” the sixth grade class of Lillie C. Evans School in Miami asks Patricia Smith in her poem, “Building Nicole’s Mama.”

In communities of poets, one can sometimes perceive a faint hum of grumbling ambivalence about the fact that many of us fell in love...