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The schedule for Britain's National Poetry Day reveals a plethora of post-Eliot efforts, but, laments Ju Shardlow in The Guardian, discouragingly little from before the Modernists. The amount of rap, slam...

In the Irish Times, professor Patrick Crotty describes the challenges and joys of compiling the latest anthology of Irish poetry. A principle goal, he says, was to "bring more of...

What is the scent of Dickens? We would have thought chimney smoke and gasoline, but this online retailer suggests it's actually tangerine, juniper, and clove. Poe? We put money on blood...

Poet Rhonda Welsh was born and raised in Detroit, and she knows the city doesn't exactly scream bastion of artistic activity in the popular imagination. Perhaps that needs to change,...

In response to London's Tube strike, and in honor of National Poetry Day, poet Roger McGough has penned a few public transportation-related lines in hopes of helping "commuters see the...

Tracy K. Smith's sprawling, five part poem, "MY GOD, IT’S FULL OF STARS" spans across the AWL's poetry section for last week. In her celestial poem, Smith journeys from the...

The time has come to acknowledge a simple truth: poets rock. In an open letter to poetry, Jen Woods, co-founder of Typecast Publishing and editor of The Lumberyard magazine, provides...

A reading from 2007, worth revisiting if you're having a weekend of Beat nostalgia.

Popshot, the UK poetry magazine that gained international distribution after just four issues, is about to explode.  Tom Chatfield of Prospect Magazine chats with Popshot's 23-year-old editor and founder...

The third selection from the Rumpus's poetry book club is inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander's Crave Radiance. Here's why Rumpus poetry editor Brian Spears is a fan: And what I’ve come...