The Guardian
New poem by Maya C. Popa, “Often, I received more than I’d asked, // which is how this works – you fish in open water / ready to be wounded on what you reel in.”
New York Times
Read Mahogany L. Browne’s reflections for Modern Love’s series Black History, Continued, “Beyond Cool, She Was Fly. Her Confidence Gave Me Wings.“
New York Times
Read the poem “A Sunny Morning in the Square” written by Polina Barskova and translated by Valzhyna Mort.
Bustle
List of books to read during Black History month, including: Deesha Philyaw, Claudia Rankine, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Elizabeth Acevedo.
The New Yorker
In her memoir, Bernardine Evaristo describes how she was excluded from the halls of literary power, and how she finally broke in.
LA Review of Books
Review of Percival Everett‘s The Trees: “an indictment of America’s racial terrorism masquerading as police procedural and slapstick comedy.”
Publishers Weekly
Read up on U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale, a translation of a medieval English debate poem.
The Atlantic
Read “Needing the Dragon,” Alicia Ostriker’s new poem: “the one god in whom we say we believe / is also unbelievable.”
Entertainment Weekly
Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden City included on this list of most anticipated books of 2022.
LA Review
Review of Frank Bidart’s Against Silence: “our greatest living poet of the flesh assessing fear of flesh’s end, of desire’s flame dimming to mere flicker.”