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[Note: From time to time Poetry will feature online exclusives by contributors. This second installment comes from Kevin Craft. You can read the first exclusive, Robert Archambeau's "assessment of the...

The call went out and now the winners are in! According to The Los Angeles Times: When we put out a call for Op-Ed poetry, we had no idea how many...

From the Times of India: CHENNAI: The scent of flowers has been replaced by the acrid smell of liquor, the clear blue sky has given way to frightening darkness and...

Oh, to be in the Bay Area this October. Announcing the "Poetry And/Or Revolution" conference, taking place Oct. 3-5, 2013. This year's event is an extension of sorts of this...

We'd like to wish one of our favorite American poets, Nikky Finney, a very happy birthday today. In addition to Head Off & Split, Finney’s books of poetry include On...

Over at NPR, Jacki Lyden is helping to introduce a new generation of readers to the remarkable and amazing Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings. Hamid Rahmanian, a Brooklyn-based...

If what used to excite you does not and the collective icons of those saved MS Word drafts use up all your attention's allowances, check out this great list courtesy...

Jerome Rothenberg has dug up some translations he began a few years ago of Les Quatre Petites Filles, "the second of the two full-length plays Picasso wrote in the 1940s."...

Woops! Uh... what we meant to say is: "Reverential One-Year Celebration By The Frost Bust!" The Wichita Eagle reports that Friday marks the one-year anniversary that a bust honoring the...

A recent New York Times book review for James Longenbach's latest, The Virtues of Poetry, emphatically starts with: The audience for poetry is like a vastly reduced version of the audience...