Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads three poems from his new collection, Heaven, published in June by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Detroit's InsideOut Turns Twenty
InsideOut, a program that has been bringing poets to Detroit schools for twenty-five years, says goodbye to founder and executive director Terry Blackhawk this year, and will publish an anthology of essays by its educators in August.
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My Feelings by Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn reads three poems from his new collection, My Feelings, published in June by Graywolf Press.
An Inspired Archive of African Poetry
Since its founding in 2008, Badilisha Poetry X-Change has built the largest online archive of contemporary African poetry, including work by nearly four hundred poets from more than thirty countries across Africa and the diaspora. Now, with the launch of a new mobile site, Badilisha is making African poetry more accessible and interactive to millions of Africans.
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Rethinking Poetic Citizenship
In an effort to open writing contests and grants to undocumented immigrants, a group called the “Undocupoets” successfully petitions some of the most prominent presses and literary organizations in America.
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Why We Write: San Francisco 2015
Melissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, leads a conversation with authors Wendy Lesser, Yiyun Li, Alejandro Murguia, D. A. Powell, and Michelle Tea about the personal, political, and professional reasons we...
Surrounded By Friends by Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer reads five poems from his collection Surrounded By Friends, published in April by Wave Books.
Le Machine Ate Himself
Le machine ate himself the card that is mineI said, and I have need of the...
Kay Ryan: San Francisco 2015
Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan, author most recently of The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2010, reads a selection of her work at Poets & Writers Live: Inspiration in San...
Blue Yodel by Ansel Elkins
Ansel Elkins reads three poems from her debut collection, Blue Yodel, forthcoming in March from Yale University Press.
Blues for the Death of the Sun
The evening sun descended with the decorum of an old manWho...
Writing the Road: Advice for Touring Poets
Scraping together funds and piling into vans, poets like Nick Demske, Kate Greenstreet, Ada Limón, Zachary Schomburg, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson take to the road for a different kind of book tour—one that puts human connection above book sales.
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