Editor’s Note: This poem by Kevin Coval is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. Copyright 2017, Haymarket Books, used with permission Read More

I’ve had a problem these past few weeks trying to figure out just what “Summer Reading” is supposed to mean. Then, the death of an author solved it. Not that I’m happy about an author dying, but the recent passing of Robert M.... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Cindy Hunter Morgan is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. St. Clair River He was at the wheel of the Smith /... Read More

There’s a sense of romance that surrounds poetry––and, by extension, those who write it. It turns ordinary beings with extraordinary dictive gifts into legends of their time. In the 20th century, this was perhaps true for no one so... Read More

Ilan StavansRestless Books Publisher Ilan Stavans, writing in Foreword Reviews, recently addressed the danger of a literary monoculture posed by reliance on only a few large, corporate publishers: Stavans wrote:“The act—and art—of... Read More

Rachel HaimowitzRachel Haimowitz publisher of Riptide Publishing, which specializes in LGBTQ fiction, recently wrote a commentary for Foreword Reviews that said:“We’re on a mission to get these stories into the hands of straight... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Ben Berman is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. My friend tells me how his wife cheated— / well, not cheated,... Read More

Now more than ever, content creators are dealing with “audience fragmentation”—a newly ubiquitous term in marketing circles that describes the notion that consumers no longer have shared cultural experience, and therefore they... Read More