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Scholar Mark Scroggins writes, in a recent post on his blog, about about the fiery style of the young Ezra Pound, in which Pound clearly and forcefully lays out an...

Remember the canon? No, not that cannon, the other canon. The cool, counter-cultural 1970s canon that situated "Howl" as a crown jewel among the likes of Lord of the...

For many artists who suffer from a stroke or a traumatic injury, the resulting loss of brain functionality often means an end to their creative careers. Yet based on the...

What do you get when you put together an American veteran of the Iraq war, a recovering heroin addict, and a godfather of modern poetry (who also happens to be...

In honor of the Romantic poet's birthday, Roger Ebert has posted film clips meeting at the intersection of Coleridge and Orson Welles on the Sun-Times blog, including this gem: ...

Eric Selland has been maintaining a blog where he posts his own translations of Japanese Modernist and Avant-garde poetry. Not only is it an incredible resource for poetry otherwise unavailable...

The BBC reports that, along with Annie Freud, Fiona Sampson, Derek Walcott and Simon Armitage, Seamus Heaney is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize for his new book, Human Chain....

Poet Chris Alexander's new work consists of collecting descriptions of the main character from the film Kung-Fu Panda, and posting those descriptions online, along with terrific pictures of pandas and...

A recent provocative blog-post by Dodie Bellamy attempts to re-configure the notion of a feminist poetics by suggesting that writing from a position of weakness (or ignorance or misery) paradoxically...

The poet Zakariya Amataya, who grew up in a province of Thailand now splintered by violence over ethnic and religious differences, manages to bridge the divide with the universality of...