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Arts in Society, Reading Lists

Poetry Collection: Empathy

The second in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month 2021. 

Meghana Mysore, Boston Review

Arts in Society, Reading Lists

Poetry Collection: Belonging

The first in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month 2021. 

Meghana Mysore, Boston Review

Arts in Society

Writing Our Ancestors

A recording of the launch event for Boston Review’s new literary anthology, Ancestors. Renowned writers read their poems, fiction, and more. 

Adam McGee, Domenica Ruta, Tyehimba Jess, Ed Pavlić, Sonia Sanchez, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Cheswayo Mphanza, Yeoh Jo-Ann

Arts in Society

Using Formalism to Explore U.S. Systems of Power

Through careful and often irreverent uses of traditional poetic forms, Amit Majmudar offers affecting insights into geopolitics and contemporary life, from the War on Terror to hyperincarceration.

Calista McRae

Arts in Society

Straight Down to the Bones

In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.

Sonia Sanchez, Christina Knight

Arts in Society

Ancestral Wealth

The Sacred Black Masculine in My Life

Tyehimba Jess

Arts in Society

Return to the Gay Underground

Dennis Cooper became famous in the 1980s for his transgressive fiction about marginalized men. A new biography makes a case for what his works can offer readers now, in our era of deep suffering and infuriating indifference.

David B. Hobbs

Arts in Society

Witnessing Grace

In ‘Be Holding,’ celebrated poet Ross Gay interweaves the legacy of one of basketball’s greatest moments with a meditation on Black resilience.

Eric Morales-Franceschini

Arts in Society

Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100

Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century.

Peter E. Gordon

Arts in Society

Announcing the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest Winner and Finalists

Congratulations to Cheswayo Mphanza!

Boston Review

Arts in Society

The Woman Erased from Bauhaus History

Lucia Moholy helped create the visual language of the Bauhaus, but when she fled the Nazis her work was stolen by Walter Gropius.

Elizabeth Hoover

Arts in Society

When the State Fears a Poet

Celebrated Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao is in mortal danger of succumbing to COVID-19 if he is not released from prison.

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla

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