In the Oxford American, a poem by Wright explores the “furry moon,” “dusty tomatoes off a vine,” and “friendly zombie” of one family’s past. 

In a poem for the Bennington Review, Brown declares “I am not your Thomas Jefferson.”

Next Magazine talks to Vuong about his family’s history of rice farming and learning to speak English fluently at age nine, and declares that his collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds “illuminates the dark edges of queerness.”

On the latest episode of Paul Holdengräber’s literary podcast, Batuman discusses the strangeness of moving to New York City and feeling at home in Turkey. 

On Poets.org, Jess’s poem in tribute to world-renowned Ragtime pianist John William Boone reveals a “song against death.”

Off the Shelf declares that Pancake’s novel about a West Virginia town in the midst of a coal boom “does what a truly great book does best: it reveals our humanity in the midst of beauty and grief.”

The Rumpus praises Jess for presenting “black stories told as we most want to see them told” and deems the work “a book of living.”

Stephen Burt dissects the “encyclopedic” collection, deeming it “something people will read and reread.”

In The Paris Review, Phillips reflects on the last two weeks of the NBA regular season and why “memory in this league doesn’t have much room for runners-up.”

On the Oxford American, Jess reads a poem from his latest collection, Olio, about a man who is “pitched in darkness, exalted through sound.”