Here's a bunch of apps I regularly use that track your TBR (to be read) pile, the books you DNFed (did not finish), and offer suggestions for your next read. Some are prettier than others, and most ...

Columbia poet Evelyn Berry has a new poetry chapbook out Jan. 8, “T4T,” follow-up to “Grief Slut.” The collection dives into ...

There’s something almost sacred about holding a book that has survived centuries, influenced millions, and shaped how we ...

“Libre” was recently selected as the book for One Book One New Orleans (OBONO) for 2026.

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

Wellwater is a poetry collection which explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value, addressing aging, housing and environmental and economic crises. Celebrating ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Author Canisia Lubrin says she learned every best part of herself from her mother, Anne. “My mother was the kind of person who made every effort to raise her children and in the most inventive ways,” ...

These books just nabbed one of the most coveted prizes in the literary world. How many have you read? Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from your ...

Poet Jane Hirshfield, who will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, has said this: “What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...