Bustle
List of motivating resistance poetry includes Aja Monet, Claudia Rankine, Patricia Smith, Solmaz Sharif, and Carol Ann Duffy.
Unaccompanied
Javier Zamora included on list of 12 Books on Immigration, Youth, & Latinx Identity That Will Enrich Your Life.
NYT Book Review
Review of Jorie Graham’s Fast: Graham writes an autopsy of self and nation in the face of overwhelming loss.
NYT Book Review
Poetry in Action, Marie Howe and five other contemporary poets share the process behind their poems.
SF Chronicle
A host of Blue Flowers take to the page in Resistance, Rebellion, Life, a collection of poetry responding to our world today.
World Literature
Interview with Carolyn Forché: there is a resistance to poetry, arising from an intention to persuade. But it goes beyond that.
Poetry Foundation
Listen as the editors discuss Li-Young Lee’s “Changing Places in the Fire” from the July/August 2017 issue of Poetry.
ncpr
Story Traveler with Gioia Timpanelli, listen as she reads from her unscripted stories, both contemporary and world folktales.
AEON
A discussion of storytelling with George Saunders: A story is like a black box – you put the reader in there.
The Guardian
Review of Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds: Balancing memory and silence with erudition, his poetry resists.