WHYY Public Media
Listen to this interview with new Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith: Kids, they live in metaphor, and in life we get pulled away from that.
The New York Times
Theater of War addresses prosecutors, victims, and revenge in its most recent production of The Oresteia in Manhattan.
Star-Tribune
For Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky the accolades keep rolling in.
NYT Book Review
Review of Slight Exaggeration by Adam Zagajewski: to be discerning was to resist, survive and remain human.
NewStatesmen
Review of Night Sky With Exit Wounds: Ocean Vuong’s poetry brims with precise, surreal and erotic imagery
Holmes Poetry Prize
Solmaz Sharif recipient of the Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts.
Bitch Magazine
Aja Monet’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter included on list of 13 Books You Should Read in July.
The New York Times
Jenny Johnson and Jericho Brown featured alongside others in a reflection on poetry and art: America Today, in Vision and Verse.
WNYC
Interview with Tracy K. Smith: I’m hoping to take the conversation around literature to places not always spots on a book tour.
Poetry Foundation
Poem Talk with Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely featuring Kyoo Lee, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, and Simone White.