On Empty Mirror, reviewer Daschielle Louis writes that she felt "seen" by Brown's collection and "understood as someone seen as woman before girl. Dangerous before soft."

Winners Brian Blanchfield, Dana Levin, and Roger Reeves will each curate a month of poems for the Academy of American Poets in 2020.

Elif Batuman's The Possessed, Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier, and Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts are three of the titles highlighted on the list.

Boyer talks about the motivating fires of vengeance and love, what happens when poets face the larger market, and more.

The poet discusses his latest collection, Deaf Republic, with fellow writer Garth Greenwell. Kaminsky highlights his identity as a writer in particular, explaining "I fiercely resist being pigeonholed as a 'Russian poet' or an 'immigrant poet' or even an 'American poet.' I am a human being. It is a marvelous thing to be."

Koestenbaum reviews Susan Sontag's first film for 4 Columns, asking "Can Duet for Cannibals be my new Jane Eyre, proof-text of claiming a voice even if it means you must burn down the house?"

"Feed takes a risk," writes the LARB. "It wills imagination into being."

Yiyun Li explores the Aland archipelago, and the grief of losing a child, for The New York Times. "What is the difference," she ponders, "between beauty preserved as still image and beauty experienced in person, in time?"

Owusu talks about the first novel she ever wrote (at age five!), what she wishes she knew when she first started writing, and more.

"the ground is resplendent with them," Grice narrates in a new poem for Westview journal. "every crevice of the cliff/ disgorging them, a black tide that blues/ beneath the moon, and then the moon/ seems to crawl about on their backs