For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Mónica de la Torre's fifth book of poetry, The Happy End/All Welcome, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2016. She lives in New York and is senior editor of BOMB Magazine.
Trying to figure out what marks contemporary literature as contemporary is a deceptively complicated job because the concept of contemporaneity at stake is itself...