poetry The incredibly complicated question of how to translate inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Thom Dunn

christmas A Christmas poem about grammatically-tense ghosts Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Someone made Found Poetry out of all the emails they've received about COVID-19 Thom Dunn

poetry Watch Leonard Cohen read "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward" (1965) David Pescovitz

poems The Lucky Penny Press will put poems on pressed pennies Rusty Blazenhoff

books Starlings: razor-sharp stories and poems from Jo Walton Cory Doctorow

offworld Download a tiny executable poem about feeling sorry for robots Leigh Alexander

taco bell Volume 6 of Taco Bell Quarterly just dropped! Jennifer Sandlin

documenting the pandemic Plague Poems, documenting the pandemic since March 2020 Jennifer Sandlin

fascist florida workarounds Publisher offers free Black history books to Florida students after DeSantis tries to censor education Carla Sinclair

africa New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists Thom Dunn

music Bunburying: to write in the style of Spanish lyricist Enrique Bunbury Elías Villoro

prophetic visions 100 years later, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land still resonates Jennifer Sandlin

Emily Dickinson Andrew Bird's new single, "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" Jennifer Sandlin

music The Music of East meets West: Üsküdar neighborhood, Istanbul  Katherine Hreib

History Questions about Chilean poet Pablo Neruda Elías Villoro

words Careful Words, a more civilized thesaurus Rob Beschizza

books Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve" Elías Villoro

politics The U.S. has launched 251 military interventions since 1991—and 469 since 1798 Elías Villoro