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Rupi Kaur From the inaugural Feminist Writers Festival in Melbourne to the stages of YouTube, an emerging genre of feminist poets are disrupting the discourse about their gender. Indian-Canadian poet...

Poet and artist Bianca Stone is featured in New England's Take Magazine. Stone, one of three successive writers in her family--including her mother, fiction writer Abigail Stone; and grandmother, poet...

While conducting research for her new book about the Last Poets, Christine Otten delved into the stories of every member: their rise and fall alongside their music. The Guardian published...

To get you back into the poetry spirit after Thanksgiving, we'll ease in with a look at a few photographs by none other than poet Arthur Rimbaud. Lucille Pennel at...

Would you like a second helping of Muldoon? You got it. Up at the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Paul Muldoon's Selected Poems 1968-2014. Garner begins by first...

A new book, Forever Words: The Unknown Poems, proves that Johnny Cash's legacy is as much on the page as it is in the airwaves. John Carter Cash, who manages...

For this year's Thanksgiving Menu Poem, poet, publisher, and professional chef Geoffrey Gatza generously celebrates Elizabeth Alexander. As Gatza notes at BlazeVOX, the TMP has been going strong for 15...

The New Inquiry has posted "A Time for Treason," a reading list for these dark times created by "a group of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, and Jewish people who are...

At Wired, Lexi Pandell explores the thesis that our year of 2016 is "resurrecting poetry." (Was it dead? Nevermind.) "Of course, it never really left. It was always there waiting...

A woman hangs wet laundry to dry on a bitterly cold day, a dog looks off into the distance, and like many of us, Charles Simic has a sinking feeling...