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The Asian American Writers' Workshop has published an folio of ekphrastic poems by nine Asian American poets, guest edited by Michael Leong, for their online magazine, The Margins. "Asking the...

As part of KQED's new "Boomtown" series which aims to document the ways that San Francisco is changing: a visit with 95-year-old San Francisco hero Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who co-founded City...

Haven't your poems always wanted to participate in a fashion show? Portland's own Poetry Press Week features poetry readings that catwalk down the runway, demonstrating how exciting poetry can be....

The New York Times Style Magazine has Luc Sante advance the position that Jean-Michel Basquiat--known, of course, as a painter--was equally valuable as a poet. "Basquiat . . . was...

In potentially life-changing news, The Academy of American Poets announced today some changes to eligibility criteria for their poetry and book prizes, thanking personally Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Christopher Soto, and...

The L.A. Times announced the finalists for the 35th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes yesterday. Killer lineup we have here! Poetry Gillian Conoley, “Peace” (Omnidawn) Katie Ford, “Blood Lyrics: Poems” (Graywolf) Peter Gizzi, “In...

Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick's anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015) is here! At Jacket Copy, David L. Ulin reviews the...

Publishers Weekly reports that Coffee House Press is teaming up with Emily Books, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry's "feminist publishing project," to create an imprint that will bring books that...

Sarah Manguso is the author of a number of poetry collections including The Captain Lands in Paradise and Siste Viator but in recent years she has also developed a successful...

Now in the offing, The Offing! (We had to.) The Los Angeles Review of Books is acting as a "channel" for a new online literary magazine publishing work in all...