“Don’t be afraid to cut it if it’s not working.” —Elaine Equi, author of The Intangibles

Carl Phillips, the longtime judge of the Yale Younger Poets prize and the editor of the anthology Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, on how the prize has evolved during the past century.

In a tiny bookshop in London, writer A. N. Devers spotlights women’s writing by only stocking rare books and modern first editions by female authors.

A debut memoirist speaks up about post-publication blues and offers some suggestions for how to cure them.

“In college I had a fiction teacher tell me to make every sentence so good that the reader would have to read the next one. So basic and obvious but I needed to hear it.” —Jami Attenberg, author of All This Could Be Yours

Poet and journalist Alissa Quart is bringing documentary poetry to major media outlets.