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Hybridity is in the air! Just in time for the Chevy Volt, Christine Hume has published “Hybrity: A Card Game,” an interactive piece of literary criticism, on poets.org. The “game”...

There is, surrounding contemporary poetry, a consistent cloud of anxiety. The specific cause of this anxiety is the flood of published books and poems (i.e. contemporary poetry has no fixed...

The Guardian looks into how the works of Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's most famous poet, reflect the mood of the financially troubled nation: Pessoa died 75 years ago this week, but the...

Included in Dr. Gillian Wright's November 22nd Literary Manuscripts Masterclass at the Bodleian Library was a poetry manuscript attributed to Octavia Walsh (1677-1706). Notes in the catalog call into question...

Alan Taylor writes in The Herald about the struggle for an accurate depiction of Robert Burns amid the marketing gimmicks, plagiarist biographers, opportunistic innkeepers feverish with swirling visions of tourist...

German performance artist Ute Lember's "Bukowski Project," a staged a performance of Charles Bukowski poems interspersed with music, opened last week at Joe's Pub in New York, and the New...

On Radio 4, actor David Walliams enlists former poet laureate and Philip Larkin biograher Andrew Motion to get to the bottom of his love for Larkin's poetry. "I know how...

Tom Waits is collaborating with photojournalist Michael O'Brien on a book of poetry and photos about those who "live on the hard ground." A contemporary take on James...