NPR / “Ben Purkert tackles masculinity and ego within the advertising industry in new novel”

Esquire / “The Men Can’t Be Saved — Or Can They?”

Boston Globe / “Ben Purkert Examines Masculinity in The Men Can’t Be Saved”

LitHub “I’m a Writer But” / “Ben Purkert on Toxic Masculinity”

Electric Lit / “If You Give the Job Your Heart and Soul, You Might Lose Both”

Bomb / “The Poet and Novelist on Exploring Masculinity, Critiquing Capitalism, and More.”

LitHub “Write-Minded” / “On the Art of Writing Unlikeable Characters”

Meditations with Zohar / Podcast discussion about The Men Can’t Be Saved

Yale Review / “Game Is Life: Basketball, poetry, and the NBA playoffs”

Longleaf Review / “How These Words Lean on You: An Interview with Ben Purkert”

New Yorker Poetry Podcast with Kevin Young / “Ben Purkert Reads Jorie Graham”

Chicago Review of Books / “3 Contemporary Poets on Suffering, Sorrow, and Truth”

Adroit / "Conversations with Contributors: Ben Purkert"

AGNI Online / "Delight and Devastation: A Conversation with Ben Purkert"

Vol. 1 Brooklyn / “This Question Has Me Reeling into Existential Crisis”

Hayden's Ferry Review / Contributor Spotlight