PBS
Airea D. Matthews and Wes Matthews, her son, are both poet laureates working to inspire others.
NBCC
Congratulations to all the National Book Critics Circle finalists, including Percival Everett and Joy Harjo.
WBUR
Danté Stewart discusses Tyre Nichols’ death: “…more than police brutality. That was a lynching.”
Southeast Review
An interview with Sun Yung Shin on spells, workings of empire, boxes in churches and in the brain.
Poetry Foundation
Major Jackson to succeed U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón as new host of the poetry podcast, The Slowdown.
Salon
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-Stars included on list of 22 books we’re looking forward to in 2023.
The Guardian
Read “Zucchini” a new poem by Peter Balakian: “So many hours I stared at the blotch / marks on her knuckles.”
Electric Literature
Peruse 2022 favorites with books by Chen Chen, Chris Abani, Jenny Xie, George Saunders, Bernardine Evaristo, Meghan O’Rourke, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
Publishers Weekly
Carolyn Forché joins booksellers and authors to raise money for Ukraine.
The New Yorker
An interview with Jorie Graham on distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of the medium of poetry.