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Jared Spears presents and dissects a heretofore untranslated 1928 letter from Ezra Pound to French scholar and critic René Taupin: The letter was prompted by Taupin’s analysis of Imagism, the avant-garde...

Sad news for Poetry Flash, the longstanding Berkeley-based poetry newsletter. Jacket Copy reports that the financial situation is fairly dire. David Ulin writes: As contributing editor Dawn-Michelle Baude has written in...

Claudia Rankine's Citizen has rocked poetry audiences stateside for quite a while now but on July 2 it will be published in England. The Guardian visits Rankine and learns more...

Fortune says, "Maybe." Dartmouth College's Neukom Institute for Computational Science is sponsoring three contests next year in hopes of finding an artificial intelligence algorithm that makes "human quality" literary material....

And thus we end our first PoetryNow lineup with Oli Hazzard's fantastic poem "[I want to be near you]." The poem was originally included in Within Habit, published by Test...

In the NYT Sunday Book Review, Andrei Codrescu reviews modernist scholar Jed Rasula's history of Dada, Destruction Was My Beatrice (Basic Books, 2015). “'The true dadas are against DADA,' Tristan...

At Jacket2, Kristin Dykstra writes about both the translation and creative work of Daniel Borzutzky, and how the two modes interrelate as she reads across his oeuvre, focusing on Borzutzky’s...

We realized today that too much time has gone by since we checked in with past and prolific Harriet contributor Linh Dinh, so we're grateful to the editors of Jacket2...

Scotland's National Poet Laureate (in Scotland, referred to as the "Makar") is Liz Lochhead. In a new article at The National, Lochhead, who rose to the prestigious post in 2011,...

The newest poet laureate for the city of Portland, Maine is hockey player and educator, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc. Fay-LeBlanc will serve a three-year term and hopes to follow in the footsteps...