The Rumpus

Interview with Richard Blanco: Look at the lives of poets, each of their journeys is unique—and makes their poetry unique.

poem-a-day

Read Solmaz Sharif’s poem “Now What” up at The Academy of American Poets: My materialist mind, I can’t / shake it.

Paste

Review of Carolyn Forche’s What You Have Heard is True: “only a poet has the language to bear witness.”

CA Book Award

Congratulations to Marcelo Hernandez Castillo winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award for Cenzontle!

NYT Book Rev

Review of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition: Brown’s poems revel in the curiosities of their mythmaking and are self-confrontational in their gaze.

Common Read

Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country included on Penguin Random House’s list of 2019 Common Reads!

Bustle

Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets included on Bustle’s list of 13 New Poetry Collections You Need to Read This Spring.