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Breaking news! Time is running out! You only have a couple of more days to submit to the first annual LeBron James Poetry Contest! The rules: The poem can utilize...

Lee Chang-dong’s latest film, "Poetry" (Cannes excerpt above), is about an elderly woman who takes up the art as a means of coping with Alzheimer’s. Through her poetry,...

Jack Powers, the founder of Boston's Stone Soup reading series, has died at 73. For nearly 40 years, Powers worked to bring poetry from the academy to the people. At...

The world is still marveling over the miraculous survival of the Chilean miners, and it turns out there was another unexpected way they received sustenance for the soul: poetry.  Víctor...

Though he's a "perennial favorite" for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Syrian poet Adonis is indifferent to awards. Adonis writes in Arabic, spent years in Lebanon, currently lives in Paris...

It was only a matter of time. Google is officially entering realm of meter and rhyme. The ginormous company is working on a translator for poetry, according to the Guardian....

Is it better to preserve the homes of famous writers, or send in the wreaking ball and use the profits for other literary pursuits? Anne Trubek, the author of A...

For centuries, our most justly famous authors have all been privy to the same secret: when you're out of ideas, steal one of the internet's ideas. Hence Eliot's quip: "Mediocre...

Novelist and Conceptual poet Vanessa Place is in the middle of tweeting the entirety of Magaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. Of course, because she enters the text in...

By now, we're all familiar with death of the bookstore-style pieces, and while we know that the situation is a little more complicated than “poor lil’ bookstore vs. the big...