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.”
The New Yorker
Roxana Robinson’s novel Dawson’s Fall reviewed: re-creates events leading up to the murder of the author’s great-grandfather.
Don’t Read Poetry!
Happy Publication Day to Stephanie Burt and her latest Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.
The Guardian
Former U.K. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says newly appointed Simon Armitage, “knows where the heffalump traps are.”
Washington Post
Review of Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country: [Blanco] wrestles with the contradictions of American history.
BBC
Newly appointed United Kingdom Poet Laureate Simon Armitage elected Oxford College honorary fellow.
Ms. Magazine
Tina Chang and Elizabeth Acevedo’s latest titles included in May 2019 Reads for the Rest of Us.
Hybrida
Happy pub day to Tina Chang’s latest poetry collection Hybrida, an examination of mixed-race identity rendered through the lens of motherhood.