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Jamie Townsend reviews Madison Davis's Disaster (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2016) for Open House, writing that the book, Davis's first collection, is "ethical work" that is "centered on the importance of...

Detail of "Snake Stack No. 2" by Janie Stamm The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the December 2016 issue share some...

Jenny Holzer's first permanent installation in New York City is a poetry-based piece, based on Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." For this new work, dedicated to "the over 100,000 New...

Minneapolis's Star Tribune alluringly asks "How can poetry lead to better health?" The question (which does come to our minds, periodically) is a response to new wellness programs in the...

Bob Dylan’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, which was sent as a letter and read by Azita Raji at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday, is transcribed...

Over the weekended we were saddened by the news of the death of poet John Montague at the age of 87. As the Independent reports, Montague was a much-loved, prolific,...

At the beginning of November, I read some poems alongside Tara Bergin and (appearing via recorded video) Don Mee Choi and Sawako Nakayasu at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, to...

Chilean film director Pablo Larraín talks in the new issue of Film Comment about making "anti-bio" Neruda and Jackie back-to-back. "I was going to say, Neruda really isn’t about Neruda,"...

"The latest scholar to argue for our renewed attention to [Stéphane Mallarmé's "Un Coup De Des Jamais N’abolira Le Hasard” (One Toss of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance)] is...

The New York Times reports that Robert A. Wilson, proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop—a haunt popular with New York City's poets—has died. "Allen Ginsberg was a regular. Diane di...