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The Arizona Commission on the Arts just announced that Alberto Ríos will serve as the state's first poet laureate. As the press release reads: In partnership with the Office of the...

Though we personally much prefer Lisztomania, poetry lists were all the rage this weekend--we blame Flavorwire. To get it straight, Daniel Evans Pritchard at Boston Review has put together...

A poem by Filipino-American poet Carlos Bulosan has inspired a traveling photo exhibition. The exhibition “I Want the Wide American Earth” is currently at the Smithsonian National Museum of American...

This weekend's New York Times also includes a dispatch from Afghanistan about the life and writing of Matiullah Turab. Mr. Turab is a popular poet who performs throughout Afghanistan and...

New York Times reports that John Hollander passed away this weekend. Hollander was the author of over twenty books of poetry, tens of books about poetry as well as the...

New at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University's Vocarium, Christina Davis shares the details of her discovery of a rare, archival recording of Mary Manning Howe (mother of poets,...

For you contemporary Transcendentalists out there, BOMBLOG's got your weekend enjoyment: Caryl Pagel is interviewed by Jack Christian about her book, Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death...

A review of kathryn l. pringle's "dizzying, suffocating, brilliant fault tree" (Omnidawn 2012) is over at The Volta. Christopher Schaeffer writes of reading Pringle's new collection that it was for...

The Atlantic recently posted an article noting a Craigslist ad from an enterprising poet, Aaron Belz, that read: "Poet available to begin work immediately. Capable in rhyme and meter, fluent in...

Over at the Essay Prize is a new roundup of writers handing us their all-time favorite essays--poets included are Wayne Koestenbaum, Jenny Boully, Fanny Howe, Thalia Field, and Ander Monson,...