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According to a story published at Glamour, young women in India are writing poetry while on their periods and chasing away the stigmas surrounding menstruation along the way. "In India...

Well, at least you know what our preference is. New England Public Radio reports on Amherst College's decision, since the ouster of their previous mascot, Lord Jeff, to select a...

Would Federico García Lorca have approved of “The Sleepwalker,” a creative interpretation by animator Theodore Ushev of his poem, “Romance Sonámbulo"? This is the question over at Open Culture, which...

Photo by Carlo Villarica, 2010.   It is simply not enough to be an artist, unengaged. If you live in political times, if the lightning rod of history quivers with fire on...

Somehow we've only now come across Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People), a podcast hosted by Rachel Zucker that comprises "intimate and captivating interviews ... with poets and artists...

In a recent Washington Post opinion piece, performance poet Sara Holbrook shares her frustration when she discovered an inaccurate reprint of her poem, "Midnight," on Texas state assessment tests. She...

At Hyperallergic, John Yau guides readers through poet John Ashbery's recent collages, on view until January 28th at Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Yau writes, "Made in the past couple of...

Lucky us: The Poetry Center Digital Archive at San Francisco State has posted video and audio of Frances Richard's 32nd-annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, entitled "The Mind's own Place and...

The New Yorker's Page Turner has Rozina Ali writing about the erasure of Islam from the poetry of Rumi. Ali remarks, first off, that celebrities like Coldplay's Chris Martin have...

Two new collections published by Knopf, The Last Shift and My Lost Poetry, gather deftly-political poet Philip Levine's celebrated works for audiences new and familiar. The poet's literary proclivities began...