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The poet biopic you may or may not have heard of opens in more cities across the country tomorrow, and soon the Howl buzz will reverberate throughout the nation. On...

Ancient Babylonian has been out of use as a language for 2000 years—until now. Historians at Cambridge have recorded the readings of ancient poems and tablets in Babylonian and posted...

An article in Newsweek contemplates the swaggering, manly poets of Roberto Bolaño's Mexico City. Poets remain in Mexico, but they're a little less manly now. No longer just the domain of...

In NYC did Kubla Kahn A stately pleasure-dome decree.... Doesn't have quite the same ring, does it? No matter. Within the pleasure-dome of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibit of Mongolian...

Over at the New Yorker's Book Bench blog, Eileen Reynolds ponders one of the iPhone's poetry apps. Once she heard about "VerseByHeart" —primarily a Bible memorization tool—she knew she had...

The Big Think has an appreciation of Peggy Samuels's new book Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art, which details the connections between the Modernist master's work and that of...

Woe is the literary author who soon won't be able to live off of writing novels, if the e-book economic predictions prove true. Whatever shall writers do? Stop their yapping...

The British bookies at Ladbrokes, a London gambling company, are betting 5/1 that Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer will take home the Nobel, according to the Guardian. Other poets from other...

The current census has prompted an analysis of Robert Frost's poetry on Vermont public radio. (It was bound to happen.) Vermont Humanities Council Executive Director Peter Gilbert introduces his audience...

A Nation piece about two new volumes of Polish poetry—Ewa Lipska's The New Century and Janusz Szuber's They Carry a Promise—starts with a self-described bit of heresy: Polish poets publish too...