Am Poets Prize
Congratulations to Geffrey Davis, recipient of the 2018 James Laughlin Award in poetry for his forthcoming collection Night Angler.
New America
Jonathan M. Katz named 2019 ASU Future of War Fellow in upcoming class of New America National Fellows.
The New Yorker
Read Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s latest story “Audition”: The roles we played were generic, superficial, and true.
LA Rev Books
A conversation with Kwame Dawes on the role of music in verse and the overlap between the two genres.
Irish Times
Review of Robin Robertson’s novel in verse The Long Take, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: gripping and moving.
The Margins
Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay on collaboration, epistolary poetry, and the intimacy of sentences.
LA Rev Books
A reflection on Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate, her admiration for Emily Dickinson, and what it means to be a Nobody, too.
NPR
Interview with Vanessa Hua on her recent novel A River of Stars: Are we perceived as eternal foreigners, no matter how deep our roots?
APR
American Poetry Review features Deborah Landau and her forthcoming Soft Targets, with several poems from the collection.
London Review
On Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: Catastrophe transformed to image to neutralise its pain is very much Robertson’s thing.