Aleksey Porvin talks with Sheila E. Murphy about constraint and freedom, the distributed poetic I, and whether experimental poetry can still refuse the language of exchange.

Have It by John Cooper Clarke; The Dodo Stories by Mary Mulholland; Red River Valley by Ian McMillan; Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson; Otherwhere by Carolyn Forché

Portuguese culture will take center stage at New York City’s Lincoln Center on Saturday, October 3, with a full day of cinema, literature and live music featuring acclaimed Luso-American writer Kather...

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The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry Find the New Yorker announcement here. The National Book Foundation today announced the Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry with The New Yorker. The Finalists in all five categories will be revealed on Tuesday, October 6 with the New York Times; Winners will be announced live at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 18, 2026. For more information and to register to watch the livestream, please visit nationalbook.org/awards. Four of the ten poets are past honorees for the National Book Award for Poetry: Victoria Chang was Longlisted in 2020 for Obit, Brenda Hillman was Longlisted in 2013 for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, Fady Joudah was a Finalist in 2024 for […], and Layli Long Soldier was a Finalist in 2017 for WHEREAS. Four of this year’s Longlisted titles come from … Continue reading "Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry"

Celebrate the work of writer Mary Oliver, who published more than 30 collections of poetry and essays on nature, beauty, and love.

Little Corners Like This Lie deceptively the filth between the bed and the headboard, below that place where empty cups float like sailing ships left behind. Little corners like this, the angles in th...

Before marble learned to carry their bodies into eternity, before Alcobaça became the solemn architecture of a love larger than death, before chroniclers disciplined passion into genealogy and cons…

Photographer Katie Dalsemer, “Topanga Days Memorial Day Parade,” Topanga Historical Society Digital Archive, accessed July 6, 2026, https://topangahistoricalsociety.org/archive/document/311 Every town...

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A new biopic serves up a portrait of the chef as a young man.

Twenty-Two Poets Laureate Awarded $1.1 Million for Community Poetry Projects. Fellowships fund public poetry programs in cities, counties, states, and Tribal communities across the United States.

As a new film evokes his coming-of-age in this bohemian Cape Cod town, Pete Wells goes looking for the people and restaurants that shaped him.

Based on the Jan Lukas photograph of Vendulka Vogelova, taken a few hours before the young girl was transported to a concentration camp.I am the mirror for one who speaks;these fresh gaps are wind in ...

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Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi  (FlowerSong Press, 2022)  Reviewed by David E. Poston In her endnotes to Quarantine Highwa...

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By Millicent Borges Accardi Born in Lisboa, Portugal, Hugo dos Santos was raised in New Jersey. An award-winning writer and translator, his books include a collection of short stories about Newark, Th...

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On Mockingbird’s Proverbs, tonal precision, and a poetry of moral attention and luminous restraint

PEN America is thrilled to announce the Finalists for the 2026 Literary Awards. Join us for the Ceremony on March 31, 2026!

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of...

Millicent Borges Accardi’s poem enters me the way certain Central Valley mornings once did: through the smell before the light. That mixture of diesel warmth, dust, and something metallic—an aroma …

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December 15, 2025 – “Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?”

They are like men because they are isolatedyet stand in the rain, surrounded by moundsof dirt and asphalt to catch spillover—

Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider, the way Houdini would expand his body while people were putting him in chains.