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New York’s subway, from its founding, was dreamt as a public good in all senses, to provide a useful and reliable service that was also a pleasant place to be. City train stations were filled with …

It’s like he saw it coming. “The Numbers,” the first poem in the vast first volume of the Poems of J.H. Prynne, opens: The whole thing it is, the difficult matter: to shrink the confines down. Prynne died in April, aged 89.

Steven Reigns and Sara Youngblood Gregory discuss generational memory, the queer dance floor, and why certain stories must be told

The American poet's debut collection, Joy Is My Middle Name, took the prize on a bittersweet anniversary as the world of letters mourns the award's founding visionary.

The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood

Modernist poet whose work is considered hard to grasp but rewarding for the reader who persists

Literary hoaxes have been around forever, but none have been more influential in Australian literary culture than that of Ern Malley.

Poet, poetry editor and writer of the Guardian’s long-running Poem of the Week column

From Electricliterature RSS Feed: For These Poets, Feral Girl Summer Is an Eternal State of Mind

Teaching, Darcy’s father had always told her, was useful work. It was meaningful work, work that made sense and also made money, and it would allow her to be independent. Darcy had been a bookworm …

From Independent RSS Feed: Voices: I dig to plant the small patch of ground that I stand on

In the 5th century AD, a father in the Balkan city of Stobi was educating his son. Stobaeus (as we now call him, “the man from Stobi”) compiled quotes from Greek texts to use as a teaching tool, dr…

“The Future” author Monica Ferrell on motherhood, mortality, and how writing carries part of us into the future

The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her much-loved series

2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 (BOA Editions), …

From Independent RSS Feed: Dorset vicar apologises for church magazine poems targeting fat people, benefit claimants, and ‘illegals’

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great …

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great …

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great …

J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass everything,...