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“Both poets are interested in the power of spells, in the magical facets of sound and form that enable language to perform spells.”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“The Grave on the Wall is also an engagement with photography and (mis)representation, memory and memorialization and asks the question of what it means to memorialize something that is ongoing….”
Between the Covers
“The longer answer is that I hope every poem I include in my books is interactive, that is, the speaker of these poems very much wants to interact with you….”
The Rumpus
“What is a home in the face of dispossession? Inheritance in the face of rupture and colonial erasure? And what is the role of language on behalf of continuity and continuation?”
Between the Covers
“With poems, essays, and shorter forms, though, I usually write longhand first, in a notebook or on a yellow legal pad, until the piece begins to take shape.”
Literary Hub
“What a joke it is to be haunted.”
Electric Literature
“Maya C. Popa joins Kevin Young to read ‘Artless,’ by Brenda Shaughnessy, and her own poem ‘The World Was All Before Them.’”
The New Yorker
“A new public art project will install poems across Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood — written by residents processing loss, gun violence and grief together.”
Next City
“Somehow, she found the ability to work again. ‘I became oriented toward a kind of quiet and jaggedness that felt meaningful and true to me,’ she said.”
Stanford
“In breaking the book to silence and teasing out the still small voices within it, Molnar in effect conducts a rite on a mythic spleen.”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“Rejecting both official Soviet aesthetics and the pastoral folkways typical of Lithuanian verse, he draws much of his inspiration from the classical tradition.”
Poetry Foundation
“A gorgeous interview this week on Memoir Nation with poet, novelist, and now memoirist Rachel Eliza Griffiths.”
Literary Hub
“Claire Marie Stancek, Sarah Riggs, and Laynie Browne joined Al Filreis in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House to record a conversation about a poem by the late Etel Adnan.”
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“The 2026 recipients: Poetry: Gbenga Adesina, Death Does Not End at the Sea.”
Literary Hub
For Poetry, Vivek Narayanan, one our Co-Editorial Directors, is a recipient. .
Literary Hub
