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.
Colby Magazine
Interview with Richard Blanco: “Art suffers in some ways from the same thing that poetry does—a lot of misinformation.”
Publishers Weekly
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, Sherwin Bitsui, and Eileen Myles whose forthcoming collections are in PW Top 10 Fall 2018!
Slate
Read Jonathan M Katz’s timely article “Not Every Concentration Camp Is Auschwitz:” This is not just a debate over semantics.
American Sonnets
Congratulations to Terrance Hayes on the release of his powerful collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
Vogue
Tracy K. Smith on America’s troubled racial history: “bring voice to the unsayable, the untranslatable.”
The Guardian
Review of Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, and almost unbearably moving.