Literary MagNet: Dong Li
In translating Ye Hui’s poems from the Chinese in the collection The Ruins (Phoneme Media, November 2025), Dong Li wanted to foreground a writer he says is an “underdog” in…
Small Press Points: Green Linden Press
Christopher Nelson, the publisher and editor of Green Linden Press, believes “poetry is the most fluid literary art.” He adds, “In its shape, it can be formal or free; in…
The Literary Sizzle in Dallas
People in Dallas are hungry for poetry,” says Mag Gabbert, the city’s poet laureate. “There’s so much demand for participating in events, for offering workshops, for educating folks in different contexts…
Fugitive Love
Marguerite Young’s search for utopia
Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately
By Jackie Sabbagh
The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet
The lyrical poetic form’s origins can be traced back earlier than Petrarch.
A DEFENSE OF JOY
by Mario Benedetti translated by Maria Popova
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY IN THE NEXT STALL
Kim Addonizio