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Harriet blogger Jeffrey McDaniel gets animated.

"Informal but not (ugh) 'confessional.'" —Entertainment Weekly rates David Kirby's latest.

What rhymes with Pierzynski? Website collects poems about 2007 baseball season, has the answer.

He would've been perfect for the E! network: New Shelley bios reveal a man who "spent virtually his entire adult life trying to lure young girls away from the protection of their families."

In Second Life poets can fly, but they still hang out in bookstores and bang on typewriters.

Vietnamese poet Mong Tuyet dies.

University of Arizona Press cleans up at ninth annual International Latino Book Awards.

"I will read these beautiful poems aloud to my children when they are old enough to wonder how it is anybody can still care deeply about our country."—Dan Chiasson on Linda Gregerson's Magnetic North.

Phillip Booth, student of Frost, dies.

Could reading a couple of poems have prevented war?

Britney Spears pens angry poem for mother.

Was Mayakovsky's death really a suicide?

"[B]old, striking and sensual, it does not care whether you like it or not."—Vesna Goldsworthy on a poem by CD Wright.

Finding the perfect line (and no, this isn't a headline about Pete Doherty).

The life of Cavafy, in pictures.

MacNeice, Carson, Polley, Astley, Padel, and Daljit Nagra: Summer poetry picks.

Picking at the ice that is Paul Celan.

Dunya Mikhail: "The war works with unparalleled diligence!"

Azerbaijani poet arrested on drug charges. Oh yeah, he also just happened to be a vocal opponent of the the current government.

Andrew Motion: Tax breaks for literary manuscripts, please.

Spoken-word artist Scroobius Pip: "If you say 'poetry', people start to fall asleep . . ."

Four ways of looking at Emily Dickinson (including one involving 19 eggs).

Michael Rosen, UK children's laureate, asks: Why is television afraid of poetry?

Some great selections, but not enough history in The Spoken Word Revolution Redux.

The ghost of a smile: Amy Gerstler on W.S. Merwin.

The 100-pound poems: Sneak peek at exclusive Heaney.

Wendell Berry: Cultivating poems and crops.

Song of my laptop: On the pleasures of the Whitman and Blake online archives.

Number one, with a Bissett: Chemical Brothers ride Canadian beat poet lyric to the top.

Here comes the sun: Joy Harjo gets solar powered.

Lemon law: Three decades ago, Rumpole of the Bailey author defended gay poem.

The sound of faith: Christopher Dickey on the poetry of the Qu'ran, the King James Bible, and the Latin Mass.

Just Duende it: Reading Cave Canem alum Tracy K. Smith.

Forging Wilde: Were "wrong" manuscripts a Dadaist prank?

"Allen Ginsberg became Allen Ginsberg, and I didn't."

Hat's off to Britain's "finest peasant poet," birthday boy John Clare.

Uh-oh: If your shelf doesn't have Edward Dorn, it "hardly deserves the pressboard of its composition."

"I'm not alone": Adam Kirsch on Joan Shelley Rubin's Songs of Ourselves.

What Katie did—is burn Doherty's poems!

"The real thing is extremely rare": David Yezzi on Tupac and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Frank Kermode on A.E. Housman.

"I've lost 99 percent of what I've created because I didn't get it down": 92-year-old Vermont laureate Ruth Stone's tips for capturing poems.

Art along the Coleridge Way, inspired by "Kubla Khan."

The case of the disappearing Kerouac biographer.

William Blake conjured a communist utopia, but where are Britain's politically radical writers today?

Leonard Cohen poems inspire Philip Glass's freshest score in years.

Mahmoud Darwish: Can't we all just get along?

"I've always resisted the judgment that Dylan's primary importance was as a poet."

Dmitri Prigov, Russian conceptualist, dies.

Poet as corporate coach.

Les Murray's latest "may leave one with a lingering, vague sense of dissatisfaction." Then again, may not.

Former political prisoner nominated for Forward Prize. Judges binge on poetry in advance of judging.

Suit over Dorothy Parker poems returns to court today.

Mr. Cogito considers Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems.

The changing face of poetry and war.

Considering Yeats's Collected Poems.

Ginsberg's life available on DVD.

"The esteemed critic and poet Richard Howard hails Bellows as 'an unchallengeable voice, new among us but veteran for poetry,' a statement easily challenged by anyone who takes the time, as I did, to actually read and think about these poems."—Joan Houlihan on Nathaniel Bellows's Why Speak.

More on Mahmoud Darwish's return to Haifa.

Linda Fiorentino to produce, possibly star in Akhmatova biopic.

Drop the kids off at school, go for a swim, win $280,000 MacArthur grant: the life of Campbell McGrath.

"Maya Angelou's Best Poem Ever" is in fact not written by Angelou.

He's a both lawyer and a poet–not that he necessarily wants you to know.

Poet and performance artist Sekou Sundiata dies at 58.

Poets House gets amazing $1 a year land deal in Manhattan.

"It's kind of hard to get a cowboy to come out of the woodwork and write a poem."

But we really love articles that begin like this: "The strength of American poetry depends on the fact that hardly anybody notices it."

"I never really got poetry": We love it when articles begin that way.

Remembering Iraqi poet Nazek al-Malaika: "Shrieks rise up and disjoint, / grief wells up and flares up."

Dartmouth grad lives and breathes Frost—and works in the gift shop.

Hirsch's new series visits Ireland, Poland, and Mexico.

Poetry for airports: Ellen Bass's "Gate C22."

Not much fun: Dorothy Parker poems spark lawsuit.

Rebel, rebel: a review of Being Shelley.

Trunk call: Scores of unpublished Gabriel Mistral poems found.

"The book of my enemy has been remaindered": Norton to publish Clive James poetry collection.

Reminiscences of a woman clay eater.

Auckland poet hits the pavement.

Whitman's words to greet D.C. subway riders.

A tale of two cities, magazines, foundations: On Parnassus and Poetry.

Stone reader: Dusting off Victor Segalen's monumental prose poems.

Three sides live: Charles Guenther's translations, poems, and essays.

Could it be . . . Iceland, home of Jónas Hallgrímsson?

Zbig deal: Which country has the best poets?

As do these South African ex-addicts.

Lindsay Lohan takes our suggestion.

Going through a rough spot? Fire the therapist—try poetry.

"Thank you daddy for being my dad": Young boy writes poem to late father.

First Class, a play about Roethke, to open in Seattle.

Pulp Fiction co-writer gets pre-medieval with Beowulf script.

Today's Headlines are your one-stop clearinghouse for poetry-corpse news: Investigating the Schiller skull mystery.

"I cannot live without you anymore": love poems found with Korean mummy.

Profile of a Marine as poet.

"Manning's genius for variety of invention, for voices and different means of their sounding, is unfortunately neglected here."—David Lucas on Maurice Manning's Bucolics.

At least he's not this guy?

75 year old convicted in poem-as-death-threat case.

"I should have been thrilled by all the notice. But I've been saddened by it instead."—Poetry Out Loud winner Amanda Fernandez on the media attention following her win.

40 odd years too late, girl writes letter to Frost, wins prize.

Is their English our English? A review of three books from across the Atlantic.

Literary blogs won't save literature! At least that's what one "gradually graying book reviewer" thinks.

Anthology collects works featuring English that ain't so good.

Published notebooks reveal Frost as a great thinker and aphorist, so-so poultry farmer.