"We build hells together, you and I—how do we move forward out of their fires? By walking through them until we wake up, as McCrae, like any dreamer, knows." Whiting Award winner Dana Levin writes about "The Hell Poem" by fellow winner Shane McCrae, for The Rumpus.

Jericho Brown talks about how HIV, race and rape can coexist with joy, lust and love. "Poetry," he says, "is always waiting for its moment."

For The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Kristen Radtke writes about why we need to listen to our loneliness as writers and human beings.
 

Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Brandon Shimoda has three new drawings from the series "A Giant Asleep in Fortune’s Spindle" featured in Visible Binary. 

New Sinews features four "The Hour of the Rat" poems by Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Brandon Shimoda. "I showed her the night before, the moon./ It was full. same as the moon of my homesickness," he writes.

Whiting Award winner Tope Folarin contributes to Vulture's list of recommended reading, reviewing a new title by Emilio Fraia and the collection It’s Life As I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980.

Seek You by Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Kristen Radtke is one of Vulture's top picks for summer 2021 reads. "Radtke is unsentimental yet sincere," reviewer Cornelia Channing writes, "citing research on the impact of social isolation on life expectancy (it’s not good) and offering as salient a description of loneliness as I’ve read."

For The Los Angeles Review of Books, Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Joshua Roebke reviews the new book by Alex Wellerstein, reflecting "Only a certain kind of person, both foolish and resolute, would choose to study a subject so extensive, yet so restrictive, as the secrets of nuclear weapons."

For The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Albert Samaha reviews the essay collection by Barrett Swanson, writing that Swanson "serves as a candid and empathetic narrator, guiding us with restrained cynicism and enticing prose."