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Thaddeus Rutkowski, his Polish and Chinese heritage made apparent by surname and accompanying author’s photograph, known for his brilliant work..
Emily Skaja has been announced as winner of the 2018 Walt Whitman Award for her full-length poetry manuscript, Brute. The..
Born in 1993, Okwudili Nebeolisa is a Nigerian writer whose works have appeared in Commonwealth Writers, Threepenny Review, The Cincinnati Review,..
In the title poem to the book Café Crazy, and the last of a series of poems about heartbreak and..
The Claremont Graduate University has announced Patricia Smith as winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection,..
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has elected poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander as its new president. Succeeding Earl Lewis who..
Locking lips and interlocking fingers are harmless enough, but locking into love is seductively dangerous—both figuratively and literally. Twenty-first-century..
What is it about the Voynich Manuscript—that cryptic, illustrated 15th century text of unknown origin and meaning—that has so fascinated..
On Nassau Street in Dublin, on June 10, 1904, twenty-two-year-old James Joyce saw (as clearly as he could see, since..
