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Edgar Allan Poe, court-martialed.

40 years of Poets & Writers.

Documentary digs into Heaney at 70.

Jacket Magazine: 1997-2010.  Jacket2: 2010-?

The return of the “black Bob Dylan”: Gil Scott-Heron.

Lamb on Shelley and other invective: “His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.”

Inspiration information from Mary Jo Bang, Floyd Skloot, and more.

Power duo: Patti Smith and Tavis Smiley.

Bondage and safari and Rae Armantrout in the Washington Post.

Carol Ann Duffy’s love poems.

Emily Dickinson’s family feuds.

Carl Sandburg and Marilyn Monroe together again.

Poet Brian Turner on the cover of the New York Times.

Poetry wants to be free.

Carol Muske-Dukes on the poet soldier.

Everybody plays the fool, but only Aaron Neville plays it so poetically.

Georgia state house home to poet-rep.

Kay Ryan in a Drunken Boat.

Death cupid and the flowers of evil.

Is Simon Cowell the author of “Footprints”?

Critic goes negative, readers go berzerk.

CEO resigns by haiku tweet.

Poetry critic Ange Mlinko learns Arabic.

Richard Brautigan and Billy Collins.

Poetry conquers the Costa!

The new Dodge Poetry Festival unveiled.

The Irish Times Poetry Award shortlist.

W.S. Merwin tells us why poetry is important today

Honey and vinegar and Andre Codrescu.

The new poet laureate of Brooklyn.