Singing the Sublime: A Profile of Donika Kelly
I don’t know that there’s been a time in my life when there was not a genocide happening,” Donika Kelly tells me, her deep voice, redolent of her youth in…
I don’t know that there’s been a time in my life when there was not a genocide happening,” Donika Kelly tells me, her deep voice, redolent of her youth in…
After nine months as interim executive director of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Michelle Aielli was named executive director in July. The organization she now oversees supports…
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…
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…
There are multiple pathways from Anne Carson’s poetry to Ross Gay’s prose. One need only listen, the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson reminds us, and follow…
Garth Greenwell’s novel of living through a health crisis
At a dinner table packed with writers and book people at the 2024 Western Carolina University Spring Literary Festival, held in April in Cullowhee, North Carolina, the cofounder of Gold…
Since October 7, Israel has killed at least thirteen Palestinian poets and writers in Gaza. If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our…
Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, “Information Desk: An Epic” in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing…