Book Forum
Review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ The Circuit: Sports are a microcosm of life—it’s how you play the game.
GQ
Jeff Tweedy and George Saunders talk about ambition, writing, creativity—and where they find it.
New York Times
Cornelius Eady, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Major Jackson, and Jericho Brown featured in Black Male Writers for Our Time.
NPR
Vanessa Hua’s A River of Stars included on NPR’s collected list Best Books of 2018.
The Paris Review
An excerpt from Rowan Ricardo Phillip’s The Circuit: Myth, legend, and truth: they work on their own time and make their own order.
NYT Book Review
Natasha Trethewey’s latest collection Monument included in 10 New Books We Recommend This Week by the NYT Book Review.
Poem-a-Day
A poem by Daniel Borzutzky: I am not responsible for my dreams rather I am responsible for what I do with my dreams.
The Paris Review
Interview with two-term national Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey: To come face-to-face with what is not remembered is painful.
The Guardian
Robin Robertson’s The Long Take wins the Goldsmiths prize: a film noir verse novel full of blinding sunlight and lingering shadows.
Washington Post
Tracy K. Smith and Terrance Hayes included in The Best Poetry Collections of 2018 alongside Ada Limón and and Ursula K. Le Guin.