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Melissa Febos! Mike Tyson! Taylor Jenkins Reid! 26 new books out today.

Melissa Febos! Mike Tyson! Taylor Jenkins Reid! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 3, 2025

You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

From Poet Jennifer Grotz’s Bennington MFA Commencement Speech

By Jennifer Grotz | July 20, 2023

Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Edward Hirsch on Locating the Roots of the American Poetry Tradition

Poetry as Protest, Lament, and Call to Hope

By Edward Hirsch | April 21, 2022

Edward Hirsch on the Poet’s Celebration of Grief

Edward Hirsch on the Poet’s Celebration of Grief

First Draft Podcast">In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 23, 2021

A Reckoning and a Testimonial: On Robert Hayden’s “The Whipping”

A Reckoning and a Testimonial: On Robert Hayden’s “The Whipping”

Poem of Childhood">Edward Hirsch Gives a Close Reading of Hayden's Unsentimental
Poem of Childhood

By Edward Hirsch | April 2, 2021

19 new books to celebrate today.

19 new books to celebrate today.

By Katie Yee | March 30, 2021

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Edward Hirsch: Don't Forget to Feel the Heartbreak

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 17, 2021

Here's Shaq reading an Edward Hirsch poem about basketball.

By Dan Sheehan | June 12, 2020

Can You Measure the Happiness of Your Favorite Story?

By Kirsten Menger-Anderson | November 29, 2018

Five Pieces of Writing Advice from Philip Schultz

Five Pieces of Writing Advice from Philip Schultz

Beware the Shitbird

By Emily Temple | May 3, 2017

10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

From Aubade to Oriki to Tanka and More!

By Edward Hirsch | April 7, 2017