How tweet it is! May 24, 2010: Via the Guardian Hay Festival: "The host of literary heavyweights to descend on the Guardian Hay festival may be more used to reviewing substantial literary works, but messages of 140 characters or fewer are set to share the festival stage this year in the search to find the most beautiful tweet ever written. The search for the [...] by Poetry News

Poetry and the legacy of the I-Hotel May 24, 2010: "In 1977, San Francisco’s Manilatown community suffered a huge blow with the final eviction of the mostly Filipino American residents from the International Hotel (or I-Hotel).  This followed  almost a decade’s worth of protest and community struggle in the hopes that the building, which had housed many Filipino immigrants throughout [...] by Poetry News

Print Loves Digital May 21, 2010: Follow the Printer's Ball on Facebook: Founded by Poetry magazine with other independent Chicago literary organizations, the Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print culture, featuring thousands of magazines, books, and broadsides available free of charge; live readings and music; letterpress, offset, and paper-making [...] by Poetry Foundation

“Poetry” a Palme d’Or Contender at Cannes May 21, 2010: Director Lee Chang-dong's film is looking for something that can't be seen: For South Korean film director Lee Chang-dong, "Poetry," in the running for this year's Palme d'Or, started with a real-life crime story. But from there, the novelist-turned-filmmaker -- who also served several years ago as South Korea's culture minister -- took it in [...] by Poetry News

Mad at Your Family? There’s a Poetry App for That… May 21, 2010: Our brand new FREE Poetry app is now available. It's kind of like a moving, mobile poetry library with poems from Poetry magazine and the public domain--see for yourself: Download it at the App Store! by Poetry Foundation

Poetry at MoMA’s Greater New York show May 21, 2010: On Sunday, "Outsourced Wall Text and Bibliography" by poet Tan Lin will open at the PS1/MoMA Greater NY show. It's an opportunity for poets and artists to write their own wall text. The piece invokes directly the writing of poetry within an art institution, gallery opening setting. The text looks like a museum wall piece but there is a [...] by Poetry News

This week’s best sellers May 21, 2010: The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart, a posthumous collection from poet Deborah Digges, makes its debut on the best seller list this week at number 5. Digges, a professor at Tufts University, committed suicide last year at the age of 59 and was the author of four previous collections of work. Random House, the book’s publisher, calls [...] by Poetry Foundation

The Social Security Poet May 20, 2010: Michael J. Astrue is head of the Social Security Administration in Washington D.C. He's also the Richard Wilbur Award winning formalist poet A.M. Juster: Michael J. Astrue is the best poet ever to hold a truly major appointed position in the American government. And A.M. Juster is the best senior civil servant of whom American poetry can [...] by Poetry News

The Poetry Rubric May 20, 2010: Justin Taylor at HTMLgiant offers up what he considers a teaching fail in a post called How to Ruin a Child on the Possibilities of Literature Forever Without Really Trying. by Harriet Staff

The Huffington Post chats with Rae Armantrout May 20, 2010: Christopher Lydon at the Huffington Post asks Armantrout the essential questions: Q: When you walk down the street, Rae Armantrout, what do you think people see? A: People don't see me, because I've got on my invisibility cloak. No, because I'm an older woman. I don't think people are looking at me. by Harriet Staff