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Is all poetry written in a secret language that must be cracked like DaVinci's code? Of course not. Yet teachers often approach poems as riddles to be solved, suggests poet...

Should the Syrian poet Adonis win the Nobel prize for literature? Gerard Russell makes the case for the poetry deity (aka Ali Ahmed Said) in the Guardian: The significance of honouring...

Who: Brian Turner What: The Federal Association of Globetrotters When: April, 2010 Where: Belgrade, Serbia “Open Door” features audio, video, and online media to document dynamic interactions between poetry and its audience. “Open Door”...

The contemporary best seller list has a rather shocking newness about it this week, like an old dead pile of dirt sprouting bright orange chanterelles. While Mary Oliver and Seamus...

BBC Radio Cornwall wants you to submit a significant or special poem for National Poetry Day tomorrow. The only requirement is that the poem matter to you. Here's why Ian Bennett...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin shows how speech patterns function as a barometer of relationships, reports the Economist. Take, for example, the...

A plethora of new goodies has just been added to our Learning Lab. Explore the section for 10 new core learning lab poems, which include annotations, poem guides, teaching tips,...

Are poetry and science—and the type of thinking that produces them—really all that different? Theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman thinks putting these two seemingly divergent disciplines on different academic planets does...

Talk about good timing. Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems 1947-1997 was recently released in e-book format, reports Publishers Weekly. The e-book might be cheaper than the print version of the hefty tome, but...

Ever wonder what Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes did for fun? They used to conjure spirits via a Ouija board and flirt with the supernatural, obviously. Turns out they summoned...