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Erica Miriam Fabri opens her debut collection, Dialect of a Skirt, with the lines: “I will be frank: I want to become a poet / while I am still young...

India-Wales Writers’ Chain 2010-12 launches this weekend at the Hay Festival in Trivandrum, Kerala to foster translation projects and cultural exchange through literature. The British Council’s Wales-India programme in Kerala...

In his latest installment on the “value of verse in the 21st century,” Adam Roberts looks at the Slow Food movement as a socially responsible framework for literary consumption. But how...

Barbara Henning interviews Harryette Mullen over on the How 2 blog, where they discuss topics alphabetically. This particular post follows them from "e" through "m." The alphabetic form is not...

Artist Mimi Gross and poet Charles Bernstein collected their respective responses to 9/11 for a book called "Some of These Daze." Fortunately, the book was put out in a...

Jacket magazine has posted a talk by the late great Leslie Scalapino, originally given at a panel entitled "Language Poetry and the Body." It's an interesting talk not only...

I write in my living room, at a desk that faces the far wall. I always switch the lamp on, for a sense of occasion, I think. I don't have...

Poet and lawyer Vanessa Place is headed to the Instal Festival in Glasgow this weekend. The Scotsman interviewed her about her work as both an experimental poet and as...

Poet and funeral director Thomas Lynch reads as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival this Sunday, November 14. The event will close with an interview conducted by Poetry Foundation president...