Dear friends, A few weeks ago when we published Laura Kashishke she emailed me saying that every poet she’s ever met messaged her about that feature. That obviously made us very happy & proud. That we have been able to capture a large & engaged audience is something we do not at all take for granted. Many emerging poets we’ve published have ended up becoming friends, meeting each other online & in person. Before going on this short summer break, we published Danez Smith whose work came in the...

POET OF THE WEEK Danez Smith Danez Smith is the author of four collections including Bluff, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Their prose has been featured in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. Their fifth collection – Love, Time – will be published Fall 2027. They live in Minneapolis with their people. from Dear Time if Time happens God is detail if Time is random God is a hunger for pattern if Time kills God does too Read 6 new poems Sharing Body and Soul...

Dear friends, I write to you once again surrounded by thousands of books — my happy place — though this time the difference is that we're unpacking, which is a great deal more exciting. Deciding which book goes on which shelf is a task I take very seriously and enjoy thoroughly. It has me thinking: why do we love literature so? Why do we (those of us in this house, and you reading this) spend years — whole lives, really — investigating what language can do? I was going to go on a tirade, but...