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A Nation piece about two new volumes of Polish poetry—Ewa Lipska's The New Century and Janusz Szuber's They Carry a Promise—starts with a self-described bit of heresy: Polish poets publish too...

The e-books, e-rights and royalties discussion is heating up, and after a Canadian government program posted 600 books on the web without compensating the authors, the folks at Bookninja were...

Self-defined "poor, parasitical critic" Micah Mattix has a small wishbone to pick with poet Thomas Sayers Ellis's  “Ten Rules for Changing the Game of Poetry.” Rather than innovative and game...

This week’s contemporary best seller list marks the return of some familiar names: Maxine Kumin’s selected poems, Where I Live, returns at number 9, Brian Turner’s second collection, Phantom Noise,...

Eileen Myles from Monofonus Press on Vimeo. Not enough? Read this week's feature on Eileen Myles's Inferno (A Poet's Novel) by Emily Gould. Not enough video? More at...

Former Ploughshares editor Don Lee wrote an essay/manifesto for Review Review magazine titled "Editors Do Not Hate You, But They Have Every Reason To."  In a nutshell: editors are not...

A review of Amy Clampitt's collected poems at The New Republic's online literary review focuses on the messes she makes so well. Sure, every now and then Clampitt’s diction soars so...

God would approve. Reverend Peter Atkinson of the the Dean of Worcester Cathedral is planing a public poetry reading marathon of 20,000 lines in 24 hours as an education fund-raising effort....

Kathleen Martin's poem about climate change appears in the Christian Science Monitor today. Though we're unsure her efforts will do much to save the reputation of politically inspired poetry, we...

How to save our rapidly deteriorating earth? The Endangered Species Coalition is starting by hosting an all-star poetry reading to raise awareness about the environmental devastation in the Gulf ,...