Drizzle praises the book of poetry about Kane’s ties to her ancestral land, writing that Hyperboreal is “a collection of survival, of singing.”

“My/ Heart hammers at the ceiling, telling my tongue/ To turn it down. Too late,” writes Smith in a new poem about the challenges of love.

Phillips’s poem begins “We wander round ring after ring of life" and explores the meaning of existence. Best American Poetry 2017 is edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Tretheway. 

Poets.org includes work by Terrance Hayes on their list of poems for Black History Month. Whiting winners Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Safiya Sinclair and Terrance Hayes contributed picks for the list and shared their thoughts on the impact, both personal and public, of black poetry. “To be a black woman alive in America and writing poetry is miraculous,” Sinclair reflects.

Jackson talks to House of SpeakEasy about the first time he read a book for pleasure and when writing makes him dance around his apartment. 

The magazine praises Core’s ability to depict ordinary moments in life, writing that, despite their seemingly everyday subjects, Core’s stories provide “thrill.”

Levin discusses why she has been “mourning” her changing relationship to social media, and says of her writing process, “My way has always been to see in the personal life, the life of the unconscious, the seeds of our collective experience.” 

In The Nation, Pollitt writes about her experience participating in the event, and describes the horrible "shock of recognition" that inspired millions of women to march.

The Herald praises the Florida theater performance of Stephen Adly Guirgus’s work, writing that “Guirgis is a playwright with a distinctive voice and the ability to create vivid characters who veer from comedy to life-altering conflict with equal aplomb.”

Lacey and collaborator Forsythe Harmon discuss the romantic connections between artists they discovered while creating The Art of the Affair, and why “affections are dangerous.”