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An interview with poet Fady Joudah about writing his latest collection, [...], amid war in Gaza.
Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.
Kemi Alabi’s Against Heaven answers generations of spiritual violence and threatened damnation with reclamation, repopulation, and a redefinition of heaven.
A series of creative reflections on why Yusef Komunyakaa remains one of our greatest living writers and what it means to be a Black Jazz Poet.
Critics tend to discount Rich’s later poems, fundamentally misunderstanding how they engage her radical vision of community.
John Wieners was one of the most important gay poets of his generation.
In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.
On Dennis Cooper’s transgressive fiction about marginalized men.
Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century.
Celebrated Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao remains in prison on trumped-up conspiracy charges.
Michel Houellebecq’s Islamophobia and chauvinism have made him a favorite intellectual of right extremists. So why does he appeal to so many on the left as well?
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