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.
LARB
A conversation with Meet Us by the Roaring Sea author Akil Kumarasamy on pushing against the self in fiction.
The New Yorker
Read “Eshu or Ambition” a new poem by Kwame Dawes.
Brittle Paper
Kwame Dawes named Brittle Paper’s 2022 Literary Person of the Year.
Goop
Review of Akil Kumarasky’s Meet Me by the Roaring Sea, a “…mesmerizing and odd novel…haunting and beautiful.”
Peste Magazine
Read Dunya Mikhail’s poem “Friendship Snapshot” here: My friend is always busy, / so I made a new friend / of Play-Doh.
The Week
Meghan O’Rourke recommends six books on understanding pain and illness including titles by Natasha Trethewey and Susan Sontag.