New Yorker
Out today, read the title poem for Raymond Antrobus’ forthcoming collection, “Signs, Music.”
Poetry Foundation
A new essay by Chen Chen: “It’s hard to believe there was a time I didn’t recognize [humor’s] significance.”
Harpers Bazaar
Airea D. Mathews on play: “Barbie reminds me of the imaginative intensity that children take on to push past time and space.”
OnBeing
Pádraig Ó Tuama reads “You wake the dead to life” written by Rumi and translated by Haleh Liza Gafori.
G&L Review
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on writing black, queer fiction: “‘So, your mother is a Black feminist? No wonder your writing is so queer!’”
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Watch Deborah Landau read from her latest collection Skeletons at the Ledbury Poetry Festival last summer.
On Being
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ poem “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” featured on the Poetry Unbound podcast. Listen here.
Esquire
Excerpt from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming Chain Gang All-Stars: “She noticed her own steadiness… Strange. She’d counted herself wretched for so long.”
The Cut
Read an excerpt from Maggie Smith’s forthcoming memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful: “My marriage was never the same after that.”
The Offing
Read “Organized Decay” and other poems by Kimiko Hahn: “It’s true, too, that Ruin is formal— / a dart, a shadow.”