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Critic Harold Bloom opens up to Publishers Weekly about his upcoming anthology, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, a collection of poets' final works or works...

The Jewish Week, like every other newspaper, shouts out to Howl, but lends it a uniquely Semitic spin: About halfway into “Howl,” the edgy, thoughtful new docudrama by Rob Epstein and...

A nine-day centennial celebration honoring Charles Olson will begin next weekend in the poet's hometown of Gloucester. By all accounts, Olson stood out - and not just because of his...

In the Atlantic, Graeme Wood recalls meeting Pound biographer and anti-Semitic homophobe Eustace Mullins six years ago. Meeting Mullins was, for the journalist, a chance to explore Pound's mental condition...

That's what inquiring minds - namely, Don Delillo's - want to know.  Delillo was just announced as the recipient of PEN's prestigious Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction....

Mary Oliver has taken over the top spot on this week's contemporary best seller list, surging past Seamus Heaney, W.S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, and Billy Collins with her latest, Swan....

English professor Patrick Hicks can sit back and bask in the rays of South Dakota's brightest poets. Hicks and the Center for Western Studies have produced A Harvest of Words,...

Pop quiz: Who ushered in San Francisco's "new society rooted in spontaneity, experimentation and social revolution? Answer: It was Ginsberg and the Beats—with "Howl" at the helm—who navigated a generation toward...

Seamus Heaney is not writing his own obituary. The revered poet's latest collection has garnered a plethora of press, much of which depicts Heaney's poems as meditations on death and dying....

Write Obama's inaugural poem? No pressure...really.  When poet Elizabeth Alexander was tapped for the task, she asked herself a simple question before entering action mode: How can a poet, someone who...