In the Adroit Journal, Guest's new poem explores themes of rejection with the line "In the night, in that benign darkness, I sing what I’m not able to bear."

A review in the Los Angeles Review of Books remarks on the use of love in Tracy K. Smith's newest collection Wade in the Water, observing that, in Smith's work, "love dwells in paradox." 

Catherine Barnett reads Symborska's poem "Maybe All This" and discusses the work with New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young. "I don't think that that person, the speaker who is alone, is pathetic," Barnett remarks. "I think the aloneness is a pulling together of the split self into a whole." 

In the New Yorker, Whiting winner Dan Chiasson writes about fellow winner Forrest Gander's latest collection, a "chronology of loss," describing the book as "a self-suturing wound, equal parts bridge and void."

Image Journal discusses how poets Carl Phillips, Leslie Harrison, and Whiting winner Shane McCrae use innovative poetic lines, calling McCrae's work  "an act of great empathy and exposure."

"The New Testament, daringly juxtaposes the sacred and the profane, and in doing so encourages us to reconsider those very terms," writes The Guardian, praising Brown's "powerful" subversion of religious verses.

Alarcón was honored for his work with groundbreaking Spanish language podcast Radio Ambulante, and said of the honor, "The best praise you can give me is to call me a narrator."

Singapore Unbound reviews Brown's The New Testament, praising the collection's lyrical, prayer-like quality and writing, "Brown's collection, I believe, is a beautiful testament to this in action: if one lives, prays, and reveals one's true face, extraordinary changes can be made."

Brown talks about what made him reconsider his relationship to religious faith, why poets are like preachers, and how poetry saved his life.