Publishers Weekly
Carolyn Forché joins booksellers and authors to raise money for Ukraine.
The New Yorker
An interview with Jorie Graham on distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of the medium of poetry.
Brittle Paper
Kwame Dawes named Brittle Paper’s 2022 Literary Person of the Year.
Goop
Review of Akil Kumarasky’s Meet Me by the Roaring Sea, a “…mesmerizing and odd novel…haunting and beautiful.”
Peste Magazine
Read Dunya Mikhail’s poem “Friendship Snapshot” here: My friend is always busy, / so I made a new friend / of Play-Doh.
The Week
Meghan O’Rourke recommends six books on understanding pain and illness including titles by Natasha Trethewey and Susan Sontag.
The Marginalian
Haleh Liza Gafori’s Gold, a dazzling translation of a selection of Rumi’s poetry, included on this list of Favorite Books of 2022.
The Washington Post
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s latest: “In The Bird Tattoo, Iraqi women are sold as slaves.”
Wall Street Journal
Joy Harjo and the “portal to grace” in poetry; she believes that poems can give us “new ways to speak with each other.”
CBS News
Read an excerpt from Percival Everett’s latest Dr. No: “John Milton Bradley Sill aspired to be a Bond villain, the fictitious nature of James Bond notwithstanding.”