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Sina Queryas interviews Sonnet L’Abbé, poet and reviewer for The Globe and Mail, among other publications, about the process of reviewing. It’s an interesting exchange, partly because L’Abbé has...

Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts is nothing like a shiny orb that warms the earth. There's actually a "dystopian tone" to Pritts' poetry collection, and if the sun had...

Brian Turner’s two collections—Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise—both return to the contemporary best seller list this week in a big way. Turner’s books leapfrog the majority of the list to...

The Atlantic has devoted a five-part series to a discussion about the value of verse in the 21st century. In this, the second installment, poet Adam Roberts takes on the...

A collection of Maya Angelou's personal notes, letters and documents has been acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. As the largest collection of her...

We’ve been following the Lebron James poetry contest closely, with bated breath and an irregular heartbeat that sounds like dribbling. Over 1,100 poems were entered, and the judge, Miami Herald...

Bhanu Kapil’s blog, Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi, is subtitled “A Day in the Life of a Naropa University Writing Professor.” But instead of bitching about her students, or...

Every year since 2003, Steve Evans asks poets from all walks of post-avant poetry life to contribute a list of their favorite books of the year. The project, called...

Because you've always wanted to know what rhymes with hardboiled, thankfully a Free Online Rhyming Dictionary called the Rhymer is now at your disposal. From GalleyCat: The online tool allows poets...

Perhaps you've already heard about Google Translate's epic Jabberwocky fail. If not, the Google Empire has developed a translator specifically for poetry, and while Harriet loves a pie-in-the-sky idea, it...