For Lambda Literary, Brown talks about why the power of poetry doesn’t need to be eternal, reflecting on a recent church experience to declare that “poetry is not interested in seeing itself last forever. It is a force that means to move us now.”

TIME talks to the poet, whose new collection Wade in the Water explores race and the Civil War, about visiting an Air Force base and what poetry has in common with prayer.

Greenidge interviews fellow winner, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, about forming the Dark Room Collective and why her “hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level.”

Calling Pico’s previous work “stellar,” Publishers Weekly says that his latest book “is a therapeutic process for poet and reader alike” and gives Junk a starred review.

The Review writes that Asymmetry “manages to deliver personal and global stories as if they were one,” dubbing the novel “one of 2018’s first near-perfect novels.”

Koestenbaum covers topics from the influence of both the Talmud and Susan Sontag on his work, to the beginning of his “life as a poet.”

LaValle, author of the horror novel The Changeling, talks about how raising children inspires changeling mythology, and why "every life is impacted by politics."

Elif Batuman is nominated in First Fiction for her novel The Idiot, Victor LaValle’s horror novel The Changeling is a Fiction finalist, and In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae is a Finalist in Poetry. Congratulations to all!

The novel "is a ‘masterpiece’ in the original sense of the word,” writes the magazine, praising Halliday's ability to depict “profound and violent kinds of asymmetry.”

Cantú talks about the process of becoming a border patrol agent, and what he thinks that borders – in the United States, and globally – can teach us about humanity.