Discomfort = Bias
Claudia Rankine explains why discomfort is the world’s most underestimated resource–in Foreign Policy.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker publishes Charles Simic’s poem The Lover.
Latino Book Awards
Congrats to Jennine Capo Crucet–winner of the best Latino-themed fiction book, Make Your Home Among Strangers.
ACA Fellowship
Congratulations to Natasha Tretheway–recipient of the Academy of American Poet’s 2016 Fellowship.
Cuban American Vote
Jennine Capo Crucet writes Convincing My Cuban Mom to Vote for Hillary for the New York Times.
Home to Humanity
LA Review of Books explores Linda Gregerson’s latest collection of poetry, Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2014.
LA Review of Books
LA Review of Books looks back to Linda Gregerson‘s second collection of poetry, The Woman Who Died In Her Sleep (1996).
Storytelling in Controlled Spaces
Patricia Smith talks to NPR‘s Dave Becker about the role of the poet in a modern context and storytelling in poetic form.
Kenyon Review
Linda Gregerson talks to Kenyon Review about revisiting Ovid, throwing her voice, and poems that remain open to interference.
Poems in the Air
Simon Armitage speaks to The Chronicle about his latest project, celebrating special places with poems you can’t read.