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Today on Dennis Cooper's blog "DC's Spotlight," Cooper provides a long quote from Reva Wolf concerning Mr. Ted Berrigan. The quote remarks on The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (2011,...

Have you heard of the English poet and painter, Adrian Henri? Whether you know him or not, we recommend a hop, skip, and a jump over to the ICA's homage...

Thank goodness Grove Press recently published this spectacular Amiri Baraka tome. The New York Times's Dwight Garner provides a little illumination to the text. From NYT: There are two ways...

Events to celebrate the life of poet and mystic Thomas Merton are being planned worldwide, reports Melville House, to mark his centennial this month. Claire Kelley writes: Last week at the...

At Los Angeles Review of Books: University of Chicago graduates and friends Michael Robbins and Anahid Nersessian discuss feminism, poetry and pop allusions, Marilynne Robinson, Los Angeles, and Nersessian's forthcoming...

Entropy has listed the top 93 poetry books in translation from 2014, referring to Coldfront's 2014 best-ofs, writing: "Since Coldfront didn’t mention any books of poetry not originally in English...

The New York Times profiles College of Staten Island English Department Professor, successful poet, and "fallen journalist," Patricia Smith, who is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry....

Those right there are the kinds of instruments that John Keats encountered during his career in medicine. (Scary!) The young bard trained as a surgeon and was tasked with dressing...

Wow: Charles Simic writes about Mark Strand for the New York Review of Books blog. Strand, who died in November, was one of Simic's oldest friends: "Having known him for...

Yes, yes: The Academy of American Poets revealed the 2015 National Poetry Month poster! As always, The Academy collaborated with Chipp Kidd in its search to find one talented artist to...