The FSG Writer’s Fellowship is a yearlong program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing.

2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 (BOA Editions), …

Memorious is an online literary journal publishing quality verse, fiction, and views on literary craft, including reviews, interviews, and criticism.

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My former teacher and mentor Gail Mazur, whose newest collection, World on a String, was recently released from Arrowsmith Press, once told me that as poets we maintain maps in our head within whic…

My former teacher and mentor Gail Mazur, whose newest collection, World on a String, was recently released from Arrowsmith Press, once told me that as poets we maintain maps in our head within whic…

In the month’s poetry round-up, repetition reigns as poets push at its boundaries through acts of translation and transformation. Katrine Øgaard Jensen throws a translation party full of corruptive…

Poetry Readers, what a month. Copper Canyon delivers a much-anticipated one-two punch with Richard Siken’s I Do Know Some Things and Natalie Shapero’s Stay Dead. Our most recent U.S. Poet Laureate,…

How does the mind survive its internal battles, or a world burning around it? What angels, creatures, and songs does it manifest? In which artists and works does it find solace or reflection? And h…

Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

Sandra Cisneros, Third World Press to receive lifetime achievement awards, distinguished guest Maxine Hong Kingston to speak New York, NY (January 23, 2024)—Today the National Book Critics Circle anno...

My father once broke a man’s hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Rubén Vásquez, wanted to kill his own father With a sharpened fruit knife, & he held The curved tip of it, lig...