Poets and Writers

TO GRIEVE, TO MOURN, TO SING, TO FEEL

In his new poetry collection, Lift Every Voice, Phillip B. Williams explores a range of emotions—rage, loss, regret—but it is the devastating effects of avoiding grief that fuel his most urgent poems, and sitting with that feeling, more than two...

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INSPIRATION, IMAGINED

Our January/February cover through the years.

SINGING THE SUBLIME

In her latest poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things, out now from Graywolf Press, Donika Kelly celebrates joy as a simple yet radical means of resisting despair.

LOOKING FOR LOVE IN A TIME OF GLOBAL LONELINESS

In her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which comes out nearly twenty years after her Booker Prize–winning The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai considers loneliness in all its states of loss and heartache, possibility and promise,...

TAKING A CHANCE

A new book examines Toni Morrison’s years as an editor at Random House and the complicated art of publishing books of poetry by Barbara Chase-Riboud, Lucille Clifton, and June Jordan.

DOUBLE DREAMING, DOUBLE IMAGINING

In his ninth book, the poetry collection I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, Douglas Kearney shatters traditional expectations of poetry by transforming images and texts into dynamic conversations about Black identity, personhood, and art while...

Karen Russell The Antidote

The Luminous Life

Our twentieth annual look at debut poets.

Fighting Back Against Book Bans in Florida

BOOK DISTRIBUTION

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