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.”
The Guardian
Read “Zucchini” a new poem by Peter Balakian: “So many hours I stared at the blotch / marks on her knuckles.”
The New Yorker
Read “Eshu or Ambition” a new poem by Kwame Dawes.
New York Times
Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.
The New Yorker
Read Adam Gopnik’s latest op-ed, “How to Build a Twenty-first-Century Tyrant.”
LitHub
Read “Dear American Gun Owner: When is Enough?,” an essay by Brenda Hillman.