NYR
Read “When the End Starts” a new poem by Jorie Graham: “Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.Remember what I asked you for.”
The New Yorker
Read “Bob Marley, Live, 1980” a new poem from Kwame Dawes: “the voice turning his syntax into a final plea, / I remember, I remember, I remember when.”
Poets.org
Read “1951” by Brenda Hillman, a new poem from her fourth book about time—the final volume of a temporal tetralogy—forthcoming in 2026.
Vanity Fair
Stephanie Burt on Taylor Swift, relatability, and her course at a college famous for being famous.
PBS Newshour
Anastacia-Reneé shares her Brief But Spectacular take on legacy and poetry.
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!’”