On Being
Jericho Brown’s interview with Krista Tippett: “I’m interested in where people use violence as an excuse for love.”
Bustle
Jericho Brown’s The Tradition included in 26 New Poetry Collections by LGBTQIA+ Writers in 2019.
Oprah Mag
50 Unapologetically Queer Authors – including Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and Jericho Brown, share the best LGBTQ Books Ever.
VQR
Read “The Ethics of the Third Person” a new poem from Nick Flynn here: “Every-/thing is as it should/be.”
Washington Post
Review of Stephanie Burt’s new book, described as a literary manual for the Instagram era, Don’t Read Poetry.
Poetry Magazine
Read Javier Zamora’s “[Immigration Headline]”: I’ll never see her again was/the fear as if she’s gone, died, will never come back.
Firecracker Awards
Sherwin Bitsui’s Dissolve and Terrance Hayes’ To Float in the Space Between named finalists in the 2019 Firecracker Awards.
Slate
Stephanie Burt reflects on Terrance Hayes‘ latest collection and his transformative work with the sonnet form.
PBS Wild Card
Dunya Mikhail’s In Her Feminine Sign is chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their Wild Card in the Autumn 2019 Selections!
The Times
Interview with new U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage: “A bad poem is about the worst thing you can give someone.”