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What more is there to say about "Last Letter?" The previously unpublished Ted Hughes poem that chronicles the days before Sylvia Plath's suicide (and his dalliance with poet Susan Alliston)...

On the middle leg of his whistle-stop tour, Paris Review editor Lorin Stein stopped in Pittsburgh and chatted it up with Sampsonia Way managing editor Silvia Duarte. The two talk...

The recipients of the Whiting Award, writers who demonstrate "extraordinary talent and promise," were announced yesterday. The award is given to writers in the early stages of their careers and...

A recent New Yorker review of poet Giacomo Leopardi included this colorful detail about his life: "His deformity effectively barred him from having any sort of romantic life, except for the...

Poet Le Pham Le will read her work tonight as part of the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Off the Shelf series at Chicago’s Newberry Library. Le’s first publication is a bilingual...

There's the good kind of slam (as in poetry) and the bad kind (as in to harshly criticize). So did poet and Washington Post reviewer Troy Jollimore slam poetry when...

One of the perks of super-stardom is getting total strangers to like what you like. That's especially cool when star power is used to promote reading, and that's exactly what...

Yesterday, in honor of Sylvia Plath's birthday, the Reader's Almanac published a comprehensive tribute to the poet by examining the plethora of Plath biographies written since the poet's early death....

DJ Dolack opened up his new issue of The New Yorker only to find a Halloween horror: poems by identical twins Matthew and Michael Dickman. How did this make Dolack...

Artist Michael Davis Murphy’s new website, Barthes by Barthes by Bart, features images of Bart Simpson writing quotations from Roland Barthes’s autobiography on the blackboard. Ha!