On Poets.org, Johnson’s poem explores gender identity and memory. 

“I’m living a dream I didn’t even know I could have,” Jackson says of his writing career, and discusses the need for better career guidance for African American youth.

“I concentrate on the logic of the poem itself as a thing, rather than the message of what the poem is doing,” McCrae explains of his writing process, and reads the poem “A Walk as Bright and Green as Spring as Cold as Winter.”

In The New Yorker, Frazier reports on the latest efforts to ban plastic bags in New York and hypothesizes, “I believe it’s possible that one day we will see a New York City without bags in the trees." 

The New York Times declares Choi’s collection about the Korean and Vietnam Wars “excitingly difficult” and its author “an archaeologist as much as a poet.” 

Vuong discusses preserving his Vietnamese culture in the U.S. and writing about war in his poetry. 

In Guernica’s “The Kiss” series, Jackson’s piece explores a stream of memories brought on by the observation of a kiss.

On The Paris Review, Phillips’s poetic tribute to Prince is an ode to the performer who was “a symbol through sound.”

The Los Angeles Times praises Wright’s innovative fusion of poetry and nonfiction, and revels in her “remarkable power to make her readers feel both culpable and capable.”

Lacey talks to the Italian online magazine about writing in airports and why she doesn’t believe in happy endings.