Heron Barks
Read Rowan Ricardo Phillips‘ new poem: “Remember the heat, how it burns the back/of the throat as night screams his name.”
New York Times
Jericho Brown reflects on the history of Pride Month and weighs in on this complicated moment for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
New York Times
Read “Weather” by Claudia Rankine: “Turns out/in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher, is without.”
New York Times
Read “Say Thank You I’m Sorry” by Jericho Brown: “I’d like us to rethink/What it is to be a nation.”
LitHub
Read “This’ll hurt me more” by Camille Dungy: “America,/I’ll tell you this much, I cannot understand this mind,/where it reaches.”
The New Yorker
Read “George Floyd” by Terrance Hayes: “the river runs dry your face/the music of the spheres/Emmett till the end of time.”
TIME
Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive included in TIME’s 45 New Books You Need to Read This Summer.
Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Blue Flower Aimee Nezhukumatathil has been named a Guggenheim Fellow!
New York Times
Read Hisham Matar’s interactive piece, “Something Happens When You Fall” for the New York Times.
Library Journal
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown speaks to Library Journal on how he wants us to read poetry.