On the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Blog, 2019 finalist Villarreal discusses forging space on her own terms and giving others permission to do the same.

Row tells The Millions he is "suspicious" of empathy, explaining, "Using empathy as a justification is too simple. It requires some clarificaiton about what empathy means."

A new poem by Daye reflects on a photograph by Matt Eich for an upcoming exhibition, Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South.

Hopler's latest for The Believer poem, in which the narrator explains of his grandfather "He even borrowed the gun he shot/ Himself w/, the smartass," takes its title literally, blending humor and sorrow.

Shelf Awareness writes that in his latest collection "Pico lets go of all poetic conventions and expectations and allows his words to dip and soar on strange and beautiful trajectories."

Ocean Vuong and Colson Whitehead have been longlisted for the award, in recognition of their novels On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and The Nickel Boys, respectively.

Boyer speaks candidly about capitalism, illness, and her own writing process. "If I perceive my own weakness or my own occluded vision or some moment in which I am not up to the task of discerning some truth or seeking an idea," she explains, "I just include that in the writing."

The Brooklyn Rail writes that Whitehead's latest novel is "a reminder of where we have been and a warning not to go there again."

The New York Times says Ruefle's National Book Award-nominated latest collection "records small moments with sweeping scope, moments in which the speed of thought seems to outpace real time."

Greenidge, a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, discusses the important role that research plays in her fiction writing, including making fictional work more realistic and introducing readers to knowledge that they would not otherwise have access to.