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If you live in Los Angeles, we hope that you'll howl. Yes yes you heard that right. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's poem, "Howl," rockers Courtney Love,...

"Four hundred words. No bylines. A focus on the text itself. And a staunch no-crony rule." Spencer Short and Kathleen Ossip are the editors of SCOUT, a new journal...

At The Stranger, Gabriel Heller reflects on The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell, as well as the reality of the poet's death last year: "How could someone who'd reckoned...

At Teachers & Writers Magazine, Matthew Burgess interviews Dorothea Lasky about her passion for teaching: "I think if I stopped writing poems—well, I don’t know what that would look like—but...

Matthew Rohrer reflects on his Irish heritage and the pleasures (and pain) of drinking whiskey right here at The Wall Street Journal: MY FAMILY identifies as Irish—more so, perhaps, than is...

We've introduced Kate Tempest before, here as one of twenty "next generation poets" recognized by the UK's Poetry Book Society. Now, word of Tempest's talent hits stateside with this...

We were delighted to discover the spring issue of BOMB in our inbox, and with it, a piece by Ian Dreiblatt on P. Inman's recent selected poems, Written: 1976–2013 (if...

A conversation with Maggie Nelson about motherhood, paradox, her many books (including The Argonauts, forthcoming from Graywolf this year), queer family-making, and language is a don't-miss at Guernica. Her new...

That's right, more writing is on the way from the author of the epic poem The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You (and more), although Frank Stanford passed...

Lisa Jarnot is interviewed at rob mclennan's Touch the Donkey journal supplement, where she responds to questions surrounding her poem, “Part Five: The Sublime Porte,” which appears in the fourth...