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Erin Belieu scoured the literary world for concrete numbers. As a poet and co-founder of Vida: Women In Literary Arts, she wanted to find out how many women are receiving...

In 1999, poet and teacher Taylor Mali wrote a poem titled “What Teachers Make” and published it on his website. Since then, the poem has been reproduced and quoted from...

The 24th annual Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival will take place on October 7-10, 2010 in Newark, New Jersey. The massive makeshift "poetry village" will house poets, musicians, and...

At a recent poetry reading, Seamus Heaney converted Alison Flood of the Guardian from a read-poetry-in-solitude kind of gal to lady-who-listens-to-it-live-and-in-awe. Consider Heaney's sound advice on poetry collections for the beginner...

Atlanta-based artist John Morse found creativity in consumerism with bandit signs—advertisements "promising fast money, easy weight loss, and painless hair removal." The signs inspired a plethora of haikus that Morse...

When it comes to commentary on the poems of Emily Dickinson, it can be difficult to know where to start. Michael Dirda of the Washington Post suggests beginning with Helen...

This morning's Washington Post has a thorough examination of the events surrounding Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey's suicide. The Post takes a professional look into the allegations...

Poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson talks with Peter Moysaenko of BOMBLOG about his fondness for grey mornings, compelling quagmires, the slash and burn method of writing poetry, and Selenography, his latest collection.Wilkinson's Selenography poems are...

PEN USA judges Seido Ray Ronci, Robyn Schiff, and Richard Siken picked Amy Catanzano's Multiversal for 2010 PEN USA Literary Award in poetry. Finalists for this year's award, which...

The contemporary best seller list is flush with debuts this week. In the top ten, Paul Muldoon’s Maggots arrives with mealy fanfare at number 6, followed shortly thereafter at number...