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Chances are there's at least one book in your poetry collection designed by Jeff Clark ("Quemadura"). At Bear Books, read about his process, experiences, and take a look at 20...

This March, Shearsman published a new edition of Veronica Forrest-Thomson's Poetic Artifice: A Theory of 20th-Century Poetry, edited by Gareth Farmer. This book, writes Peter Howarth for the current issue...

Hey, we've all been there! The latest issue of The Point features O.T. Marod's essay about the writer's (well, actually—the poet's) life in this age of economically unviable verse. Far...

Up just yesterday at Apogee is an interview with Nikki Wallschlaeger, which centers around her poem "This Body Keeps the Keys" from Apogee 7. Muriel Leung asks Wallschlaeger about the...

In addition to Paul Celan (translated by Pierre Joris) and The Selected Poems of T’ao Ch’ien, Maggie Nelson's must-have list includes Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works. Dig in: “Collected Works,” Lorine...

In a review partly titled "popular poetry is good poetry," The Post and Courier's John Cusatis reflects on Billy Collins's twelfth collection, The Rain in Portugal (Random House), writing that...

Figured you'd want to know about this one: Broodthaers Society of America a) exists, with its base in New York City; and b) has launched the second issue (or Season...

Last week the shortlist for the National Book Awards was announced (original longlist here). The four finalists in Poetry: Daniel Borzutzky's The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press); Rita...

At Prairie Schooner, Eric Farwell's interview with Monica Youn covers the poetic line, law, and her creative process on the occasion of her latest collection, Blackacre: Monica Youn is a...

Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Victoria Chang’s poem “Barbie Chang’s Tears” appears in the October 2016 issue. Previous posts in this series can...