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Andy Emitt's Spin Magazine feature "Celebrating Pop Poetics: 25 Poets Who Draw Inspiration From Music Icons," presents a list of contemporary poets who slay like rock stars, pop stars, and...

Peter Nowogrodzki visited poet and fiction writer Jim Harrison a few months before his death, in this Los Angeles Review of Books interview, possibly Harrison's last. Introduction JIM HARRISON, a writer who,...

I first encountered the work of Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) in 2006. I had been a loyal customer of Green Integer Editions, which publishes pocket-sized books by a range of international...

The BBC (Scotland) reports Sir Daniel Day-Lewis has recorded a reading of Wilfred Owen's poems to honor the relaunch of Edinburgh Napier University's War Poets Collection. The collection, which includes...

Tarpaulin Sky presents a lovely close-reading by Martin Corless-Smith of poet Craig Dworkin's Alkali (Counterpath Press 2015). Alkali: The geo-lyric crucible Alkali, from al-qali, the calcined ashes of the glasswort, or saltwort....

Our friends at Bad Lip Reading and the New York Times are in conversation today. Sure, they're talking about the election, but what we're interested in is the poetry angle!...

Queen Mob's Teahouse hosts an epistolary project between friends and long-time poetry collaborators Cheena Marie Lo, Tessa Micaela, and Brittany Billmeyer-Finn. The three met in Oakland in 2011. Although Micaela...

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Cave Canem, the organization that calls itself "a home for black poetry," the organization that, I would argue, has changed the face of...

Adnan Al-Sayegh, Biography of an Exile (Arc Publications) Austin Allen, Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press) John Ashbery, Commotion of the Birds (Ecco) Anne Markham Bailey, Nancy Marguerite's Chopin (Green Bucket Press) Claire Bateman, Scape (New Issues Poetry & Prose) Philippe Beck, Didactic Poetries (Univocal Publishing) Richard Berengarten, Changing (Shearman...

A longtime Boston resident (and recent Brooklyn transplant), Bill Corbett is the publisher behind Pressed Wafer. In this Literary Hub interview, he visits Fanny Howe in her Cambridge "brick womb"...