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David Jones with Mayor Michael A. Nutter. Photo by Pamela Yau. Congratulations to David Jones: Philadelphia's Youth Poet Laureate! As Youth Poet Laureate, Jones will be encouraged to create initiatives...

If you steal my idea I swear to God, well, I’ll be mad at you. It’s a moneymaking machine this idea, and I came up with it when I...

We're pleased to present Thomas Sayers Ellis's new poem "Man / Dela" on PoetryNow. Accompanying Thomas's virtuoso vocal performance is James Brandon Lewis on saxophone and Luke Stewart on bass....

If you're in the market for a new piece of rock and roll ephemera, the online auctioneer Paddle8 will be auctioning off a remnant from Jim Morrison's notebook: one of...

The PEW Center for Arts & Heritage has announced its grantees for 2015! The $75,000 awards offer serious support every year to artists, writers, and cultural organizations of the Philadelphia...

A day late and still short: Andrew Epstein wrote about Frank O'Hara's love for James Joyce's Ulysses at Locus Solus. Happy day-after-Bloomsday! Apparently, the poet carried the book with him...

Don Mee Choi is the translator of South Korean feminist poet Kim Hyesoon, whose most recent collection Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Award for...

At Entropy Alexandra Wuest reviews Elaine Kahn's Women in Public, the most recent installment in City Lights's Spotlight Series. Wuest dives in from the outset, sticking the brass tacks to...

[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Rebecca Gayle Howell’s poems “Every Job Has a First Day” and “Something's Coming but Never Does” appear in...

As a Fulbright Scholar in 2011, Fatimah Asghar studied poetry and performance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. There, she formed the country's first spoken word collective called Refleks. Her honors (besides the Fulbright)...