In the Harvard Review, Major Jackson leads over 200 poets in a project dedicated to the legacy of Barack Obama. Using a traditional Japanese form, the poets, working in pairs, write stanzas in celebration of the 44^th President. 

The Times reflects on the sparing use of the personal in Li’s memoir, and declares that her “transformation into a writer is nothing short of astonishing.”

Waxwing praises that agency with which Sinclair depicts in black women in her poems, writing that the collection is "an act of resistance and survival."

BOMB praises the “sharp” writing in meditations on travel and identity, and writes, “Daniels moves so nimbly between topics and episodes that only athletic metaphors come to mind.”

On the Kenyon Review blog, poet Dean Rader writes an ode, in list form, to Levin's latest collection. "Reading a Dana Levin poem," Rader writes, "is a bit like spelunking into a cave of golden light."

Brown will serve as poet-in-reseidence for the organization’s 25^th annual meeting. Participants will work with Brown during conference sessions and read their work at a performance with him. 

The prize is awarded for the best published literary work in the England language, written by an author aged 39 or under.

McCraney talks about how the film Moonlight, based on McCraney's play about his childhood in Miami, has influenced his own memories of the past.

The UVA journal writes that Ruefle’s latest collection contains "wily logic" and "poetic intelligence."

In American Theatre magazine, Orlandersmith discusses the one-woman listening tour she undertook for her play Until the Flood, a response to Ferguson and the issues of race it raised.