New York Times
Jericho Brown and Torrey Peters featured in this conversation on the state of queer writing to make a list of essential literature.
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Watch Deborah Landau read from her latest collection Skeletons at the Ledbury Poetry Festival last summer.
The American Scholar
Tune in to listen as Carolyn Forché discusses the editing of a wartime anthology of Ukrainian poetry.
Wired
Speculative fiction author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a builder of worlds dark and twistedly terrifying, but never devoid of hope.
On Being
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ poem “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” featured on the Poetry Unbound podcast. Listen here.
CLMP
Congratulations to Douglas Kearney and Jenny Xie who are finalists for the 2023 Firecracker Award in nonfiction and poetry. Peruse other authors here.
Poetry Foundation
Laura Glenum on Deborah Landau’s Skeletons: “Landau mobilizes the female libido as a site of resistance to her own mortality.”
The Millions
Camille Dungy discusses Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden: “gardening offers me a space where I see patience pay off.”
Vulture
How the poet Jorie Graham — living with cancer, reeling from her mother’s death — wrote the best book of her long career.
NPR
Best-selling fiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses his new novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.