Rob Hart talked writing with Alex Segura.

The New York Public Library is holding an event celebrating James Baldwin.

Ross Barkan pondered the state of literary criticism.

The longlist for this year’s Joyce Carol Oates Prize has been announced.

At The New Republic, pondering the film adaption of William S. Burroughs’s Queer.

The Quietus reported on this year’s Nyege Nyege Festival.

What do poets think of Taylor Swift?

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