The New Yorker

Read “The Man Who Owned Me” by Tracy K Smith: ” I carried him/Like I carried my own children.”

LA Rev Books

Read this stunning review of Tina Chang’s Hybrida: “a book of kingdoms, forests, wolves, and witches.”

CNN

Read Deborah Landau’s piece “We are all soft targets”: “A failure of imagination may prove tragic for us now.”

Washington Post

Reviews of new, stunning collections of poetry including Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise and Tina Chang’s Hybrida.

NYT Magazine

Read brilliant, tracing poems – including one by Camille Dungy – in this Literary Timeline of African-American History.

The Guardian

Simon Armitage’s latest poem, commissioned by the Institute of Cancer Research in London, engraved on chemotherapy pill.

New York Mag

Interview with Adam Gopnik: “Liberals get nothing accomplished except everything eventually.”

New York Times

Read Claudia Rankine’s essay “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.”