The New Yorker
Osama Alomar on The Teeth of the Comb and his topics of choice: human dignity, success, failure, equality, inequality.
Osama Alomar on The Teeth of the Comb and his topics of choice: human dignity, success, failure, equality, inequality.
Mary Gaitskill speaks with Terry Gross about feminism, sexual assault, and Somebody With a Little Hammer.
Congratulations to Joy Harjo, recipient of the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement and contribution to poetry!
NYC Artist in Residence Bryan Doerries brings audience to church with a Theater of War production of MLK’s final sermon.
Writer and educator Philip Schultz on how his passion for writing lead to his second-calling: teaching.
A review of Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds: It is the frequency on which these poems exist that matters, their urgency.
George Saunders on public and private spheres of suffering and his list of books for solace in an age of rancor.
Juan Felipe Herrera discusses the power of poetry and his work with Chicago Public Schools with Chicago Tonight.
Listen to Sarah Manguso discuss her latest, 300 Arguments, a collection of aphorisms for modern times.
Aja Monet’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter included in 15 Books to Read this May: Monet more than rises; she stays aloft.