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On the Lit Hub Podcast: Brad Lander Talks Sonnets; What Happens When a Small Press Wins the Booker

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Brad Lander Talks Sonnets; What Happens When a Small Press Wins the Booker

Featuring Brad Lander, Stefan Tobler, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | August 8, 2025

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

By Khadijah Queen | August 6, 2025

Is Brad Lander’s original Shakespeare in the Park sonnet any good?

Is Brad Lander’s original Shakespeare in the Park sonnet any good?

By James Folta | July 17, 2025

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Judi Dench and the Actor and Director Brendan O'Hea in Conversation from Their New Book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent"

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2024

José Olivarez on Translation and Transformation in Poetry

José Olivarez on Translation and Transformation in Poetry

Promises of Gold">On His New Collection Promises of Gold

By Literary Hub | March 6, 2023

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”">“In Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”

By Jericho Brown | January 11, 2022

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A Sonnet by Diane Seuss

By Diane Seuss | March 31, 2021

All your favorite pop songs reimagined as sonnets.

By Emily Temple | April 14, 2020

Sir Patrick Stewart is reading a Shakespeare sonnet a day on Instagram.

By Jessie Gaynor | March 26, 2020

Actors are reading sonnets to us online to soothe our isolation anxieties.

Actors are reading sonnets to us online to soothe our isolation anxieties.

By Emily Temple | March 20, 2020

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Rumi Priestly Poet of Love <em

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and Master of the One Liner">Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

Brad Gooch on One of the World's Great Poets

By Brad Gooch | October 10, 2019

Kimiko Hahn: Writing Poetry Between Science and Dreams

Kimiko Hahn: Writing Poetry Between Science and Dreams

Brood in Conversation with Peter Mishler">The Author of Brood in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | August 20, 2018

Read Early Sonnets By Walter Benjamin, for the First Time in English

Read Early Sonnets By Walter Benjamin, for the First Time in English

Heartbroken, One of the Great Thinkers of the 20th Century Turned to Poetry

By Carl Skoggard | December 11, 2017

Danez Smith: My Grandparents Were the First Poets I Knew

Danez Smith: My Grandparents Were the First Poets I Knew

Don't Call Us Dead in Conversation with Peter Mishler">The Author of Don't Call Us Dead in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | September 27, 2017

On Poverty, Justice, and Writing Sonnets of the South

On Poverty, Justice, and Writing Sonnets of the South

Poet Melissa Range talks to Stephen Burt

By Literary Hub | December 21, 2016

Shakespeare and His Stuff

Shakespeare and His Stuff

Understanding the Artist Through His Things

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2016