Reporting & Interviews (Culture)

• BOMB Magazine (Marilyn Hacker) Marilyn Hacker Interviewed by Jeevika Verma

• NPR (Raymond Antrobus) Raymond Antrobus uses spoken word poetry to portray a diverse experience of sound

• NPR (Saeed Jones) Saeed Jones confronts the end of the world in new poems

• NPR (Nuar Alsadir) A book on laughter and how it brings out our most authentic selves

• NPR (Alora Young) In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women

• NPR Feature A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

• NPR (Safia Elhillo) Safia Elhillo takes a leap in new poems, writes about shame and the body

• NPR (Ryann Stevenson) In 'Human Resources,' a poet finds her voice by working on artificial intelligence

• NPR (Marwa Helal) 'Ante Body' asks us to be more open to the world

• NPR (Elif Batuman) Elif Batuman's sequel 'Either/Or' follows a young woman's sexual awakening

• NPR (Naheed Phiroze Patel) 'Mirror Made of Rain' looks at how patterns of self-destruction are inherited

• NPR Feature For neurodivergent, non-speaking poets, collaboration is the basis of language

• NPR (Ocean Vuong) Ocean Vuong's new poems examine the 'big, big yesterday' since his mother was alive

• NPR (Jos Charles) 'a Year & Other Poems' examines the passing of time alongside the passing of grief

• NPR Feature A high school spoken-word club changed students' lives. Now, you can read their poems

• NPR (Bianca Stone) 'What Is Otherwise Infinite' asks for granular honesty in our search for meaning

• NPR (Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Nair) Two poets chronicle their friendship and isolation during the pandemic

• NPR (Sonia Sanchez) For poet Sonia Sanchez — at age 87 — there's more work to be done

• NPR (Victoria Chang) 'Dear Memory' digs into the shame accompanying immigrant silence

• NPR (Jane Wong) This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know

• NPR (Ashley M. Jones) Alabama's First Black Poet Laureate Takes A Personal Approach To 'Reparations'

• NPR (Leigh Stein) Inspired By 'The Decameron,' These Poems Are A Modern Pandemic Time Capsule

• NPR (Adrian Matejka) David Bowie, Travis Scott Inspired The Poems In This New Collection

• NPR (Muriel Leung) 'Imagine Us, The Swarm' Maps A Path Forward For The Asian Diaspora

• NPR (Kate Durbin) Reality TV Inspired This Poetic Look At People And The Things They Hoard

• NPR (Anjali Enjeti) 'The Parted Earth' Traces The Impact Of India's Partition Across Generations

• NPR Feature Poetry Provides Comfort — Through The Pandemic And Beyond

• NPR (Raymond Antrobus) 'Perseverance' And Poetry Help A Writer Bridge Multiple Worlds

• NPR (Natalie Shapero) 'Popular Longing' Digs Into Everything We'd Rather Leave Unsaid

• NPR (Jackie Wang) With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

• NPR (torrin a. greathouse) Poetry Escapes The Beauty Bind In 'Wound From The Mouth Of A Wound'

• NPR (Valzhyna Mort) 'I Was Drafted Into Music,' Says Poet Valzhyna Mort

• NPR (Aimee Nezhukumatathil) 'World Of Wonders' Urges Us To Take A Breath And Look Around

• NPR (Vivek Shraya) For Artist And Author Vivek Shraya, The Internet Is Now A Canvas

• NPR (Vijay Seshadri) New 'Paris Review' Poetry Editor Vijay Seshadri Has Hope For The Next Generation

• NPR Feature Podcasts Are Providing A New Way Into Poetry

• NPR (Kaveh Akbar) Kaveh Akbar Is Poetry’s Biggest Cheerleader

Book Reviews

• Los Angeles Review of Books (Terrance Hayes) Vehicles of Awareness: On Terrance Hayes’s “So to Speak” and “Watch Your Language”

• The Adroit Journal (Akwaeke Emezi) A Review of Akwaeke Emezi’s Content Warning: Everything

• The Adroit Journal (Raymond Antrobus) A Review of Raymond Antrobus’s All the Names Given

• NPR (Clint Smith) Above Ground

• NPR (John Keene) Punks

• NPR (Rio Cortez) Golden Ax

• NPR (Taneum Bambrick) In 'Intimacies, Received,' moments of intimacy come tangled with moments of violence

• NPR (Zeina Hashem Beck) 'O' takes readers on a journey of abandonment and reclamation

• NPR (Paul Tran) All The Flowers Kneeling

• NPR (Ada Limón) In her new poems, Ada Limón argues for turning a delicate attention to the world

• NPR (Solmaz Sharif) Poetry collection 'Customs' is rooted in un-rootedness

• NPR (Elena Medel) 'The Wonders' portrays the struggles of working women

• NPR (Martin Espada) Floaters

• NPR (Hoa Nguyen) A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

• NPR (Amanda Gorman) In debut poetry collection, Amanda Gorman looks at America today through its past

• NPR (Natasha Rao) These Poems' Sensual Details Explore The Friction Between Integrity And Desire

• NPR (Kaveh Akbar) Kaveh Akbar Pits The Self Against The Sacred In His New Poems

• NPR (Maggie Smith) In 'Goldenrod,' A Poet Finds Lessons In The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected

• NPR (Rajiv Mohabir) What Resilience Looks Like For A Queer Guyanese Indian Poet

• NPR (Alex Dimitrov) 'Love And Other Poems' Promises That Love Will Find Us

• NPR (Kimiko Hahn) Foreign Bodies

• NPR (Kazim Ali) 'The Voice Of Sheila Chandra' Echoes Through Time And Space

• NPR (Sumita Chakraborty) 'Arrow' Creates Beauty From What Hurts Us Most

• Kajal Magazine (Kiran Bath) “Instructions for Banno” Examines The Ideal Bride

• Kajal Magazine (Hajar Hussaini) “Disbound” Is a Poetic Monument To Abandonment

• Kajal Magazine (Divya Victor) “Curb” Memorializes South Asians Whose Lives Were Robbed by American Racism

• Kajal Magazine (Meghan Fernandes) “Good Boys” by Megan Fernandes Breaks Open The Shoulds

• The Juggernaut (Faitmah Akbar) If They Come For Us, We Stand Together

• Ploughshares (Peter Orner) Maggie Brown & Others: Stories by Peter Orner

• Ploughshares (Yrsa Daley-Ward) The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Reporting (News)

• Filter Longform Feature A Visit to VOCAL, a Vital Hub of New York Harm Reduction

• NPR Feature GOP governors sent buses of migrants to D.C. — with no plan for what came next

• NPR Feature More companies are trying out the 4-day workweek. But it might not be for everyone

• NPR Feature New Doctors In India Are Starting Off Seeing The Worst. It's Taking A Toll

• NPR Feature Fawzia Koofi On Afghan Peace: 'We Want To See This War End Tomorrow'

• NPR Feature 'The Urge' says calling addiction a disease is misleading

• NPR Feature In D.C., A Traditional South Indian Welcome Awaits Joe Biden And Kamala Harris

• NPR Feature Local, State Elections Hit Unique Diversity Milestones

• NPR Feature Shakespeare's Original 'First Folio' Sells For Almost $10 Million

• NPR Feature New Orleans Musician Offers Kids Trumpets In Exchange For Their Guns

• The Juggernaut Feature How Activism Has Changed for Kashmiri Americans

• The Juggernaut Feature In Little Pakistan, Independence Day Reveals Tensions

• Kajal Magazine Profile The Flavor Profile of Mayukh Sen (Print Issue 4: Food)

• The Brooklyn Ink Longform Feature The Battle For Little Pakistan

• Homegrown Feature More Young Indians Are Turning To The Vipassana Meditative Experience

• Crosscut Feature Mic Night With a South Asian Twist

Essays

• Poetry Daily Essay Jeevika Verma on Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Felon

• Electric Literature Essay After My Grandfather Died, I Met Him for the First Time in Poetry

• Kajal Magazine Panel The Entertainment Value of Arranged Marriage

• Kajal Magazine Feature In LOTA Land Fashion Is Clean and Straight From the Streets

• Kajal Magazine Opinion 2019 in Poems