On Literary Hub, duBois refleects on the emergent "I," explaining, "You might not consciously notice it while you're reading, but it's there all the same: a heartbeat we register, even if we don't quite hear it."

"Here," Poets.org says of Kaminsky's second book, "deafness and silence are figured not as importence, but as fierce protest."

Brown talks about his invention of the duplex, a new poetic form, on Poetry Foundation, explaining, "I wanted a form that in my head was black and queer and Southern. Since I am carrying these truths in this body as one, how do I get a form that is many forms?"

"I had to go this far in order/ To present myself as a whole being/ You'd heed and believe in," muses Brown in a poem, featured on Literary Hub, from his new collection, The Tradition.

Freudenberger describes her experience of writing as "an extension of reading for me, and I knew I was a reader from the moment I learned" and talks to the bookstore about hello fights, advice from Grace Paley's stories, and her new book, Lost and Wanted.

Smith received the award for her collection Wade in the Water. "She has not only put out a book of her poems during her tenture [as U.S. Poet Laureate]," said Karen Long, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards manager, "but some of the poems speak to our national moment."

USA Today writes that "duBois' language is dextrous, and her pracing impressive," and praises the "acutrely drawn" characters in her latest novel.

"Paulie was in a foul mood, due to the public boycott of his werewolf movie. City Council claimed in unfairly stereotyped the Forty-First Precint." An excerpt from the gripping new novel by duBois is featured in Narrative magazine.

Brown shares his vision for poetry creation: "The land of poetry is when we're having a conversation with ourselves, with our subconscious mind, in the act of writing. We say things that we don't expect to say. Things that scare us."

Five new peoms by Brown appear in Vinyl, including "Monotheism," in which the poet meditates: "Some people need religion. Me?/ I've got my long black hair. I twist/ The roots and braid it tight."