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We learned today from the Globe and Mail of the death of Elise Partridge. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Partridge lived in Vancouver, BC for over...

At Boston Review, Dana Levin writes about Caroline Bergvall's Drift (Nightboat Books 2014). To the point: "Bergvall has an ear for how the archaic and contemporary guises of English sound...

This just in from Jacket Copy: a journal called Draft: The Journal of Process is hitting its stride. Draft is edited by Mark Polanzak, Rachel Yoder, and Lisa Ciccarello,...

The newest issue of Warscapes includes poetry by Mohamed Eno, from his new volume, Vertical Articulation. At Warscapes, his poetry is introduced by Noam Scheindlin: check it out! In Mohamed...

  Photo by Dolores Dorantes.    Animales El Paso, Texas. Enero 9, 2014.1 No entiendo mi vida. No sé quién soy. Se, más o menos quién no quise ser. Como estudiante no quise alimentar...

This just in from YaleNews! Nathaniel Mackey has won Yale’s 2015 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, placing the poet among luminaries like Marianne Moore, Susan Howe, Adrienne Rich, Laura Riding Jackson,...

In 1941–42, W. H. Auden's one-semester course at the University of Michigan, "Fate and the Individual in European Literature," required over 6,000 pages of reading. The New York Daily News...

[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Elizabeth Willis’s “Steady Digression to a Fixed Point” appears in the February 2015 issue. Previous...

To mark Black History Month, Grove Press is publishing S O S: Poems 1961-2013 a collection of Amiri Baraka's verse. It hits bookshelves on Tuesday. To prepare NPR listeners for...

Weekend All Things Considered's host, Arun Roth, spent time this weekend chatting with poet Jynne Dilling Martin. Martin is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant to travel to...