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Hm... well, first of all it's fun to do.... but besides that, I guess the issue could certainly use a little further examination. Thank goodness Stephen Burt is on the...

Frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins’s The Discovery of Witches [Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Paul Batchelor’s “The Discoverer’s Man” appears in...

Jennifer Schuessler writes for the New York Times about a little-known poet we like to call William Carlos Williams. Actually, she'd like to write about someone else--Mr. Thaddeus Marshall. "[T]he...

"[W]hen a group of inmates put their private language under a microscope, they realized the way they use language reflects years of institutional history and serves as a unique window...

We'd be remiss not to make mention of this interview at Jacket2 (concerning Cid Corman's of, volumes 4 & 5) between Bob Arnold (Corman's literary executor and editor of of)...

Prologue “Tradecraft” is the first in a series of essays that address disintermediation and convergence as it relates to design, aesthetic philosophy, authorship, poetry, and the packaging of poetry. Here, the...

Dwight Garner reviews the latest attempt at compiling aspects of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's astonishing, kaleidoscopic career. Multitudinous Heart brings together a selection of his poems as translated by Richard...

At 96, Lawrence Ferlinghetti still has a lot to say about his life in the Beat Generation. On the eve of the publication of two new books, I Greet You...

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, poets Rigoberto González, Sandra Cisneros, Eduardo C. Corral, Francisco Aragón, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Tim Z. Hernandez, and Brenda Cárdenas reflect on the appointment...

The very influential VIDA has announced some leadership changes! Erin Belieu, who has acted as VIDA’s official spokesperson since the organization’s founding, said: “Editors and publishers throughout the country tell...