Harriet

The inability to write does not arise from a drought, from one part of the trajectory of a being having exhaust in himself all marvels and phantasms, — no more...

Concordia University's Centre for Expanded Poetics is in the headlines, specifically its director Nathan Brown, who has been scanning entire poetry collections before posting them to the centre’s contemporary poetry...

The first issue of new digital/print magazine Sublevel has arrived! Coedited by Janice Lee and Maggie Nelson, this publication is rooted in the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program and is...

Poet Maggie Nelson recounts her first encounter with Prince. The pop star, who died this year, was an early inspiration. Nelson writes: "Was I sexual at ten? I don’t know....

Good news from Southern California: SUBLEVEL is the new online literary magazine from the CalArts MFA Writing Program. "SUBLEVEL is devoted to the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism, philosophy,...

In addition to Paul Celan (translated by Pierre Joris) and The Selected Poems of T’ao Ch’ien, Maggie Nelson's must-have list includes Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works. Dig in: “Collected Works,” Lorine...

This year's honorees in literature include Claudia Rankine, the author of the critically-acclaimed 2014 collection Citizen, and Maggie Nelson, author of Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions;...

The National Book Critics Circle Awards ceremony was last night! While the winners were announced in New York, the LA Times has all the details on the best of publishing...

Sasha Frere-Jones interviews poet, nonfiction writer, and NBCC award contender Maggie Nelson, whose memoir The Red Parts is soon to be re-released by Graywolf. The two talked for Jacket Copy...

The nurses wouldn’t treat the pain. I had no one to drive me home, and it hurt—wickedly—the needle, the insertion of the titanium tumor markers, the size of tumor they...