Charles Johnson discusses the poetic genius and majestic world building of Jeffery Renard Allen.

Publisher’s Weekly chooses Marra’s new collection of linked stories as a "pick of the week" and praises the book as being "uniquely funny, tragic, bizarre, and memorable."

Wayne reviews fellow Whiting winner Powell’s latest book of short stories and dubs it a hilarious and subtly wise collection for writers who don’t always fit in.

"Every barber’s got a gift for mind reading in his touch," writes Hayes. “Barberism” is from the collection How to Be Drawn.

"I could feel the words in/ his/ mouth,” Mackey writes in this new poem for the Boston Review.

On NPR, Marra talks about taking an 11-day tour of Chechnya solo and techno remixes of Tchaikovsky.

In The Brooklyn Rail, Koestenbaum talks about reinventing his writing process “so it would physically feel like sketching” for his latest collection, The Pink Trance Notebooks.

In an interview with The Brooklyn Rail, Marvin muses over the written word as catharsis and the mystery of how poems find their readers.

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Goldstein discusses reading Roget’s Thesaurus as a child and the writing tips she gives students.

In VICE, Powell discusses his fascination with blue indigo snakes, writing about the South, and why he believes that “If you have a really successful book, you've done something wrong.”