At Portland Book Festival, in November, you may have noticed an icon on t-shirts, posters, and social media of Literary Arts' red umbrella dropping bombs. The graphic read "Drop Wells Fargo" and "Lite...

TYR ’s editors share their most meaningful cultural encounters of the year.

The sometimes garrulous, sometimes insolent, sometimes exuberant New York School style that the beginning part of her career largely lived within was not her go-to poetic mode in the last decades of h...

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

In "Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic," Huda Fakhreddine examines place, time, and anti-colonial memory in Arabic literature, concluding that "A poem in itself is survival, and a poem written...

We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m

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This will only take a…

A Conversation with Daniela Naomi Molnar Last night I met Daniela Naomi Molnar for drinks before her reading. She gave me a copy of PROTOCOLS: An Erasure —a beautiful object—and we discussed why I h...

all the little objects and actions that dress the set of time in an often repetitive world.

I thought "count every rock" and you know, "one, one, and so on"

Read Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane at the Hammer Museum on Variable West.

Palestine Square

Calling all fans of Bob Flanagan to support the reissue of an iconic text

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• Mama writes (in reply to the photo of evening Lviv drenched in summer sun): Teach him Russian! Your child must not be deprived of the right to learn the Russian language. • I write: But didn’t you f...

3 Every day, I go to earn my bread In the exchange where lies are marketed, Hoping my own lies will attract a bid.