McSweeney’s
Read this interview with Javier Zamora: Beauty manifests itself in different ways, even in a traumatic experience.
The Guardian
Read this interview with Jericho Brown: Poetry is a veil in front of a heart beating at a fast pace.
New York Times
Review of Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets: For Hayes the excitement of the sonnet stems from its insistence on change.
The Paris Review
Read this analysis of Natalie Diaz’s poem “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do If You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?’”
The New Yorker
Read Joy Harjo’s poem “Running:” Violence is my boyfriend / With a cross to bear / Hoisted on by the church.
Vogue
Claudia Rankine and John Lucas explore the reasons for the popularity of blonde hair in the new exhibition “Stamped.”
The Guardian
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s The Beekeeper: This book makes a sound, and it should be a loud one. We should all read it.
Man Booker Prize
Robin Robertson’s novel in verse, The Long Take, is the first poetry book to be long-listed for the Man Booker Prize!
Poetry Society
Congratulations to Robin Robertson, winner of the fourth annual Roehampton Poetry Prize for his The Long Take.
New York Times
This fall Harlem stage anticipates “Antigone in Ferguson,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ Greek Tragedy by Theater of War.