Shadow Narratives

Paisley Rekdal says writing her sixth poetry collection,Nightingale, out in May from Copper Canyon Press, was“like trying to conduct a whirlwind.” The result is a stunningbook about transformation that will change the way we readviolence, silence, and the stories handed down to us.

lit mag gives voice to homeless

its contributors are all part of boston’s homeless community.

The American Writers Museum

The American Writers Museum

Vagrant & Vulnerable

Two Of The Most Dynamic Poets Writing Today, Dawn Lundy Martin And Nicole Sealey, Both With New Collections Out, Explore Issues Of Poetry And Craft, Aesthetics And Language, Luxury And Yearning, Drag And Systematic Repression.

The Poet At Work

With a New Boo Ok of Nonfiction, Bunk, to Add to His Ten Acclaimed Poetry Collections, a New Job as Director of a Leading Research Center on Black Culture, and a New Role as Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, Kevin Young Is Fully Engaged in a Personal Program of Moving Multitudes. 

The Hour Between Dog And Wolf

Harnessing the power of hypnagogia

Portraits Of Inspiration

Seven writers with books coming out in the first months of the new year share their thoughts about creativity, the transformative power of writing, and the infinite potential of the literary imagination.

Epic

Salman Rushdie’s New Novel, The Golden House, Marks A Triumphant Return To Realism For The Titan Of Letters Whose Insights On Everything From Novel-Writing And Magical Realism To Identity And Social Media Are As Fascinating As The Worlds He Creates In His Books. 

The Emotional Realist Talks to Ghosts

Already established as a master of the short story,George Saunders turns to the long form in his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo,an imaginative tour de force in which nearly all the characters are dead.

Authors Thinking Outside The Book

Charles Theonia’s latest book looks nothing like a book. Instead it is a collection of twenty-one tiny glass bottles, each one with a poem inside.

Worth The Wait

Readers Have Anticipated a New Novel From the Author of the God of Small Things for Two Full Decades. Now, With the Release of Arundhati Roy’s the Ministry of Utmost Happiness , The Wait Is Over. 

Zinzi Clemmons

whose debut novel, What We Lose, will be published in July by Viking.

Jess Arndt

whose debut story collection, Large Animals, was published in May by Catapult.

Lisa Ko

whose debut novel, The Leavers, winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize, was published in May by Algonquin Books.

Diksha Basu

whose debut novel, The Windfall, was published in June by Crown.

turning the soil

how a year of farmwork yielded poems

freeman reimagines the journal

days before the second issue’s new york release, freeman talked about his vision for the journal.

the shakespeare sonnet project

the original deadline was shakespeare’s 450th birthday (april 23, 2014), but the project’s aim—to merge the literary and visual arts, and bring the poetry of william shakespeare to the poetry of new york city—quickly proved more ambitious than expected.

Bullets Into Bells

Bullets Into Bells

Making Connections Through Books

Making Connections Through Books

Sokolowski's Inspiring Word Work

Sokolowski's Inspiring Word Work

Agent Advice

Annie Hwang of Folio Literary Management

Reviewers & Critics

Reviewers & Critics

Still Dancing

Fifteen Years In The Making, Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, Published This Month By Graywolf Press, Is A Dramatic Masterwork, A Parable-in-poems That Confronts The Darkness Of War And Terror With The Blazing Light Of “a Poet In Love With The World.”

My Past And Future Assassin

In his sixth book, a sonnet sequence published by Penguin in June, Terrance Hayes cuts deep, to the marrow of the American moment, in a form with a razor’s edge: Love poems for the forces trying to kill you.

Severe Weather In The Sunshine State

Florida isn’t just the title of Lauren Groff’s new story collection, published in June by Riverhead books; It’s also a bad joke, a good home, a source of inspiration, a set of contradictions, and, perhaps, ultimately a state of mind.

Dear Readers, You Are Not Alone

When you walk into a bar full of people silently on their phones, no one thinks anything of it,” says Guinevere de la Mare, founder of San Francisco–based Silent Book Club. “But when you walk into a bar full of people silently reading books? Now that’s an arresting image.” It’s also an image that’s becoming more common, as a new literary trend gains traction around the country: silent reading parties.

How Deep This Grief

How Deep This Grief

Wilson Leads The Feminist Press

In July writer, activist, and media commentator Jamia Wilson was named the new executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press (FP), a forty-seven-year-old nonprofit known for highlighting feminist perspectives and prose. Located at the City University of New York, the press has published books by writers such as Shahrnush Parsipur and Ama Ata Aidoo and public figures such as Anita Hill and Justin Vivian Bond.

I, Too Arts Collective

For nearly ten years the brownstone at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem was silent.