New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets
What compels someone to write poetry in the first place—to commit to this nuanced, imaginative, and far-reaching art form? One of the ten authors in our twenty-first annual look at…
Arthur Sze Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Acting Librarian of Congress Robert Randolph Newlen today named Arthur Sze as the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. The winner of…
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…
Q&A: Michelle Aielli Leads AWP
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…
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…
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…
Following the Sounds of Poetry
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…
End Insights
Garth Greenwell’s novel of living through a health crisis
What’s Left Out: The Poems That Haunt a Collection From the Outside
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…
These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.
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…