News, The “ The News is more than a venture into art by someone prominent in another field. In these poems, an unconventional subject for poetry is dealt with from within, by a real...
At the Great Door of Morning "Every poem is a creation myth," writes poet Robert Hedin. This long overdue retrospective, spanning forty years of patient and painstaking work, highlights Hedin's...
Arthur Sze Arthur Sze has published nine books of original poetry, including Compass Rose (2014), which was honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as well as The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN...
Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician of internal medicine. He received his medical training from the Medical College of Georgia and University of Texas, and...
Richard Siken Richard Siken's first poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National...
Dead Man's Float A "dead man's float" is a survival technique used by swimmers during an exhausting journey. Reading and writing poems served as Jim Harrison's dead man's float while he...
Deborah Landau Deborah Landau is the author of The Last Usable Hour and Orchidelirium , which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in Grand Street , The Paris...
Tishani Doshi Tishani Doshi was born in Madras, India in 1975. She received her Master's in writing from John Hopkins University and worked in London in advertising before returning to India in 2001. At...
Ocean Vuong's Debut Honored with Multiple "Best of Year" Listings
Ocean Vuong's debut volume, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, has received numerous citations on "Best Books of the Year" listings, including:
The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016
New York Times, Critics Pick
Boston Globe, Best Books listing
NPR, Best Books listing
Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books
San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year
Library Journal, Best Books of 2016
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