New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark’s debut collection asks us to lean into conversation.

Dante Micheaux is the author of Circus, which won the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation, and Amorous Shepherd. His poems have appeared widely, and h...

a short translation as the season turns

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

The new play, written by Sarah Ruhl, is a modern take on the Greek myth of Phaedra.

A story by Richard Mirabella, plus an author interview

My mother would be a falconress, And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, would fly to bring back from the blue of the sky to her, bleeding, a prize,…

ALT: Maurice (1987) - Comforting Scene

Podcast Episode · Referential · 21 July · Bonus · 15min

Today’s poem is Listening to Vespertine for Twenty Hours Straight by Derrick Austin.

The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) has awarded the fourth annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship to Derrick Austin and Mari Carmen Barrios...