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On the heels of this Washington Post story, the New York Times has put together its summary of the troubles at Virginia Quarterly Review. The article features some new...

This week the poetry section at the AWL features a new poem from J.D. Smith, "The Vikings." Note: flaming boats and battle-axes follow. From the AWL: The Vikings They were more...

Llyfr Aneirin is moving to Aberstywyth. Say that ten times fast. The library in Cardiff, Wales, which had been storing this essential medieval Welsh poetry book, is sending the volume to the...

The New York Times has reported that one of the founding editors of the Paris Review, Thomas Guinzburg, had died. Read more about the life and work of this distinguished...

Former Milwaukee poet laureate—and Poetry magazine contributor—John Koethe is the recipient of this year's $25,000 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets for his poetry collection Ninety-fifth Street....

Eclectic online culture magazine the Rumpus is breathing new life into the old model of publishing with the upcoming publication of its first book, an anthology of personal essays by...

A previously unpublished poem by Sir Walter Scott was discovered among a "hidden collection" of documents near Callander, Scotland. "The Hills of Killearn" will soon come out of hiding...

The Brooklyn Arts Council's annual September 11th Memorial Project will feature about a dozen poems from Brooklynites dedicated to preserving the past. The purpose of the project, reports the New...

Poet William Archila fled to Los Angeles from El Salvador to escape his country's bloody civil war 30 years ago. Today, Archila has made amends with the past through the...

FIELD NOTES: 50 STATE COUNTY FAIR EDITIONS "Each COUNTY FAIR 3-Pack highlights an individual U.S. state, with one memo book each in the colors of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place County...