Personal Poetry
Several poets, including Marie Howe and Marilyn Nelson, offer New York City a surprise in Grand Central Terminal: poetry!
Nylon
An interview with Aja Monet whose powerful activism is illustrated in My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.
300 Arguments
An interview with Sarah Manguso on twitter, aphorisms, and exposition: Dig into the shame.
New York Times
Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls partner in this expression examining the state of surveillance and what it means to be human.
Hourglass
NPR reviews Dani Shapiro’s memoir Hourglass: it is a clear-eyed inspection of the slow cracks certain to develop in a long marriage.
Hyperallergic
An interview with Adam Zagajewski on creativity: I have this mystical notion there’s this energy in music and poetry and painting.
Washington Post
A review of Jorie Graham’s 12th collection of poetry Fast and Marie Howe’s latest Magdalene: Poems.
Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to Hisham Matar, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his memoir The Return!
the guardian
Simon Armitage’s latest The Unaccompanied reviewed by the guardian: Luminous and Unsettling.
Guggenheim Fellow
Claudia Rankine awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of Poetry.