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James Franco is no poetic dilettante. He studied poetry at Warren Wilson College and is currently directing a series of poem-based short films. So what sort of poems resonate with...

Lisa Kaas Boyle has published a poem about climate change at the Huffington Post. We like the Dr. Seuss echoes (though we note with concern that she misspells his name),...

In 2002, Frank Bidart's Music Like Dirt was the first chapbook ever be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Today, the sequence belongs to Star Dust, Bidart's latest celestial collection....

Shel Silverstein is best known for his fanciful children's poetry, so perhaps you were unaware of his very, ahem, adult side. Silverstein was Playboy's "cartoon-capturing foreign correspondent" as well as...

War looks rather unsettling through the eyes of a not-so-innocent child. John Lucas wrote "Easter, 1944," a poem about war from a child's perspective, and Carol Rumens expertly fillets it in...

Yet another link in the chain of Heaney reviews appeared this Sunday. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, William Logan analyzed the older poet's Human Chain, comparing the...

A somewhat mysterious article in the Times of India informs us that the "poetry war" between two political leaders is finally over. RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday declared unilateral...

What's better than writing for a workshop? Writing about a workshop, of course. Lan Samantha Chang -- grad and director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop -- just published a novel...

Though the Iranian government no longer broadcasts his songs, Mohammed Reza Shajarian may still be his country's most famous - or infamous - protest singer. NPR reports on Shajarian's peaceful...

Poet Marilyn Hacker talks about sonnets and ghazals, collaborating with Palestinian-American poet Deema Shehabi, and wandering through undefined territory while coming up with Names, her latest collection. Here she converses...