Cantú discusses his relationship with West Texas, and the long and complicated journey to identifying as a Latino writer. 

The poetry magazine applauds Long Soldier’s “daunting undertaking,” writing that her collection is a “damning volume of poetry that subverts bureaucratic corrosion of words.”

On Literary Hub, Dan Chiasson discusses why the amount of anguish in Robert Lowell's work is "inspiring" - and timely.

Fellow writer J. Robert Lennon reviews Daniels’s latest, calling the collection “surprising,” “disturbing,” and “often brilliant.” “The Correspondence is a complete work about a work-in-progress,” Lennon writes, “the self-portrait of a writer slowly coming into his own.”

For Poetry magazine, Williams expands on his recently published poem “Interruptive” and the notion of failing, asking “What does it mean for a country to be a cage and for that cage to escape the very dream it tried to hold in captivity?”

In Esquire, Daniels journeys to Lebanon, Kansas, geographic center of the United States. “Take me to the eye of the storm, I said to my suitcase,” he writes, “and my suitcase said, Okay.”

On the 20^th anniversary of Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis, Jeff VanderMeer reflects on the “strange, if beautifully so” novel that “makes you think even as it traps you in its surreal, fictive dream.”

Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad received the award for Adult Fiction Book of the Year. The winning titles “are representative of the engaging and thought-provoking titles hand-sold every day,” said ABA CEO Oren Teicher.

In World Literature Today, a new poem by Bitsui introduces readers to a strange but familiar world. It begins, “A bottom-lit sea ponders the lake’s questions,/ their secret conversations/ thatch howls to whimpers exhaled/ from an isthmus of drowned wolves.”

Long Soldier talks to recent Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry winner, Joy Harjo, about how to be fearless, and “the journey toward poetry that we’re all on, together.”