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.
White Houses
Amy Bloom’s book White Houses, about Eleanor Roosevelt’s relationship with Lorena Hickok, slated for TV mini series.
USPL
Tracy K. Smith is appointed a 2nd term as US Poet Laureate to expand her outreach efforts to rural communities!
The Nation
Read Dunya Mikhail’s article “The Exodus”: Their pieces of clothing looked like white flags in a time of war, or like delayed dreams.
Washington Post
Review of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness: Each episode materializes as memories do, with sharp and fragile immediacy.