A new poem by Riley in the latest issue of Poetry magazine explores themes of absence and boldly declares "nothing wrong with gone as a place/ for living."

On Racked, Alexander Chee questions why new female television superheroes’ appearances are either “laughably implausible” or “predicated on blending in.”

Phillips discusses process, marginalia, and how poems “intensify their own experience of being made.”

In The New York Times, Teddy Wayne on the cost of increasingly digital music and literature and the loss of "serendipitous discovery."

Gurira discusses how a photograph of a woman in the Liberian rebel army inspired her latest play, Eclipsed.

Trachtenberg talks to the literary blog about “the only way to write a good sentence” and why writing is like being an air traffic controller.

The New York Times applauds Grice's Cabinet of Curiosities for its “engaging” and “elegant” guide to creating a collection from nature.

In BOMB, thirteen new poems by Lydia Davis explore odd-looking house plants and a 95-year-old woman's love affair.

In Grey Magazine, a new poem by Rowan Ricardo Phillips accompanies a dreamy and eerie photo essay of the Brooklyn Bridge.

In The Washington Post, Karr expounds on the danger of “false memory.”