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Courtesy of The Appendix, we present this image of Venus in her chariot. Sourced from "a 14th century illuminated edition of the 'Roman de la Rose,' a French allegorical dream-poem,"...

NBC Latino recently profiled poet David Tomas Martinez and his interesting and unlikely road to writing: As a kid, I just thought I was American like everybody else, but as I...

New books new books! Both of these are getting into our windows. For one: CAConrad has just published Act Like Polka Dot on Minnie Mouse's Skirt, with Albion Books, published...

We just heard about a new school program in Pennsylvania that we think is kind of cool. According to District Administration: Through grants, the Allegheny Valley (Pa.) School District, located...

The 2013 winners are in! And this year Rowan Ricardo Phillips takes home the Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, while Tomás Q. Morín is the runner up. A little about...

“Her eye saw not just beauty but incredible, delirious, drug-like hallucinatory beauty” – Jack Smith on Maria Montez 1. In my last post, I referred to Steve Burt’s essay on “The New...

Installation by Matej Kren The Reading List is a new feature of the Editors’ Blog this year. Each month we ask Poetry’s contributors to share a book—or several—that held their...

Above your copy of her memoir, Just Kids. It's okay-- us too!-- because Patti Smith is STILL making art and making statements that totally take our breath away. This time?...

Ever heard the words "strange, magical and impractical" used to describe computer programming? New York's new School for Poetic Computation aims to change all that. As reported by NYT: New computer...

New Armed Cell, edited by Brian Ang out of Oakland, is out in the world-world! "ARMED CELL seeks to publish urgent and necessary poetry and poetics: materials for political action."...