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Would Ginsberg consider Shakespalin's "refudiate" poetry? Probably not, yet members of the Tea Party and Beat poets are strikingly like-minded, suggests Lee Siegel in a boppin' cultural critique in the...

The work of 48 dead poets with Massachusetts connections was read from sunup to sundown yesterday at the "Boston Poetry Marathon" in Gloucester, reports the Boston Herald. Here's what awaited...

In honor of the Howl hubub, the Chicago Tribune has put together a list of Allen Ginsberg bios: Despite being born Jewish, Ginsberg spent a lot of his life connected to...

It was Robert Frost who said, "Poetry without rules is like tennis without a net." Thus, to understand poetry, one must understand....math? That's right. Pascal's triangle can...

Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander recently visited Trinity University for a “Reading and Conversation” session with students, and offered some wise words of advice for impressionable young literary minds: From the Trinitonian:...

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In all its pithy tweetiness, Twitter has done little for poetry, and Ryan Kearney of the TBD arts blog is peeved about it. When a handful of former laureates gathered...

"Sylvia" (2003) is a biopic about American poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) and her marriage to British poet laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998). Many blamed Hughes for her death, and he remained...

“How shall a man spend his death?” Hanoch Levin posed this provocative question in his epic poem, “Lives of the Dead,” translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari and first...

In commemoration of the centennial of Charles Olson's birth, a celebration of the poet's life will be held in Gloucester this weekend. The Charles Olson Society, among others, has put...