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Jason Schneiderman can't make up his mind about Dorothea Lasky's latest chapbook, Poetry is Not a Project. Rather than be reductive, he gives readers at Coldfront magazine two reviews for...

Prizes, readings, publications -- they're all part of the drill for high-flying poetesses these days. But every now and again, a particularly lucky poetess will get this: a love poem...

Though she was known for her beauty and not her brains, Marilyn Monroe was apparently no slouch: she quoted John Milton and wrote poetry of her own. A collection...

Britain's National Poetry Day inspires a genetics professor to dwell on the art form's scientific DNA. In the 1700s several poems appeared that passed on a scientific message. The best known...

Charles Olson was a poet of national importance, but in many ways he was a local bard, a representative of his hometown, Gloucester, MA. In honor of the centennial of...

The "Franzenfreude" kerfuffle has simmered down, but the ladies at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts are not letting the conversation about the gender disparities in publishing spurred by Franzen's Freedom...

Poet Francisco Aragon riffs on the themes in his collection, Glow of Our Sweat, with Daniel Olivas in this candid interview. Aragon talks merging poetry and prose, the text that...

Before it can be deciphered, Nox—Anne Carson's elegy to a brother lost to her long before his actual death—must be unraveled. Nox comes in the form of "a long sheet...

This sounds like the best thing to hit the small screen since Mad Men. As part of the BBC's poetry season, a poem about "failure and death inspired by a...

The implosion of Communism in Eastern Europe and the process of making steel might not sound like wellsprings of creativity, but for journalist Lesley Duncan, such topics are goldmines of...