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At the Kelsey Street Press blog, Jackqueline Frost reviews Nico Peck's "slim collection" The Pyrrhiad, which first came to poetry light as a chapbook from Trafficker Press (RIP) in 2012,...

She may be royalty but there's one thing that the royal baby doesn't have: a poem! Carol Ann Duffy, the U.K. Poet Laureate, has again declined to write a commemorative...

At Lit Hub, poet Adam Fitzgerald interviews the inimitable Maggie Nelson about her new book, The Argonauts, just released from Graywolf. "Have we progressed as readers capable of seeing works...

Stop the poetry presses! We at Harriet are thrilled to announce that the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize goes to Alice Notley! The prize will be presented on June 8th...

Fan of Bhanu Kapil and Fred Moten? A video worth your watch was posted yesterday at Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room. For "Poet's Voice," on April 22: A riveting reading by Bhanu...

The New Yorker's Dan Chiasson reviews new books by Terrance Hayes and Deborah Landau in the May 11 issue. Both poets's recent writings consider the body (often, in crisis). From...

Walt Whitman was at work on a sequence of poems about national identity when Lincoln's body passed through Maryland and Indiana on its way to Springfield, Illinois. As Martin Griffin...

Fortune favored us this weekend, and as Rob Halpern read from his brand-new book, Common Place, for Ugly Duckling's quiet Cellar Series on Saturday evening, we were reminded also of...

I’ve known Josh Franco for about a year now. He teaches in the Art History department at Ithaca College, and I teach in the Writing Department. We both came to...

This just in: Kenning Editions has just announced Ordinance, a new nonfiction series (2015-2016)! Ordinance, a critical series, issues nonfiction writing in the areas of contemporary poetics, philosophy, politics, and technology....