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Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton will be honored tomorrow at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA, with "73 Poems for 73 Years: Celebrating the Life of Lucille Clifton," a tribute program...

The Washington Post profiles Houston Texans' running back—and poet— Arian Foster: The strains of old Chinese music or perhaps Mozart often provide a calming backdrop, flowing through his headphones. ...

The Happy Poet, an indie flick (of course) directed by and starring Paul Gordon, is about a poet who wants to be happy but doesn't know how. Will opening up...

Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan by James McGonigal, chronicles the Scottish poet's involvement in the underground 1950s-60s Glasgow gay scene.  Sexual acts between two adult males...

The Guardian has asked its readers to recommend songs inspired by poetry. As it turns out, there's lots of it, and (at least according to writer Paul Macinnes) it's good. Take...

Afterhours, last night's eclectic party at the Miami Art Museum, featured an on-the-spot Poem Depot that produced verse for a buck per pop. Here's what the Miami New Times had...

The Washington Post celebrates William Carlos Williams's 127th birthday by printing a poem no one's read before. It seems to be about plums. Unusually, the paper pairs this poem with a...

Poet Jon Cotner sent this to Harriet's weather desk early this morning: An unusually intense New York City thunderstorm erupted at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, September 16, 2010, and ended thirty minutes...

In the final edition of Steve Almond's Bad Poetry Corner for the Rumpus, good poet Matthew Zapruder offers an insightful prelude to Almond's crummy poems. How do writers get beyond...

Tonight begins Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement, marked by fasting, meditation, and prayer. A new prayerbook from the Conservative movement presents a selection of literary readings, including some...