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The Very Real Consolations of Poetry

The Very Real Consolations of Poetry

A Poem is Not a Substitute for Action, But It Can Lift Us Up

By Literary Hub | November 11, 2016

Golden Years

Golden Years

Ali Eskandarian

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 11, 2016

The Comet Seekers

The Comet Seekers

Helen Sedgwick

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 10, 2016

The Needle's Eye

The Needle's Eye

Fanny Howe

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 8, 2016

These Are The Names

These Are The Names

Tommy Wieringa, trans. by Sam Garrett

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 7, 2016

In Praise of Our Black Women Poets

In Praise of Our Black Women Poets

Arisa White on the Recordings of the San Francisco State Poetry Center

By Arisa White | November 4, 2016

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Amber Tamblyn Reads from Alice Hoffman's Faithful

By Literary Hub | November 4, 2016

Say Something Nice About Me

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 4, 2016

Kafka on Clothes, Laughter, and Miserable Words

By Literary Hub | November 3, 2016

Bruja

Bruja

Wendy C. Ortiz

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 3, 2016

Orphans of the Carnival

Orphans of the Carnival

Carol Birch

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 2, 2016

as portraiture a pair of

as portraiture a pair of

3 New Poems by Rusty Morrison

By Rusty Morrison | November 2, 2016

Fanny Howe on Race, Family, and the Line Between Fiction and Poetry

Fanny Howe on Race, Family, and the Line Between Fiction and Poetry

A Great American Thinker in Conversation with Bill Corbett

By Literary Hub | November 1, 2016

A Bloom of Bones

A Bloom of Bones

Allen Morris Jones

By Lit Hub Excerpts | November 1, 2016

"A Natural History of Autumn"

Jeffrey Ford

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 31, 2016

Serious Sweet

Serious Sweet

A.L. Kennedy

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 27, 2016

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