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It was a surprising yet enlightened choice, writes Joann Byrd in Seattle's Crosscut. The selection committee at the University of Washington chose a volume of poetry (The horror! The horror!)...

Timothy Yu, a poet and professor of English and Asian American Studies,  solidly makes a case for Asian American poetry at the Academy of American Poets website. Though Asian...

A laconic article in The Scotsman informs its readership of the poet-spy who floated in its midst decades ago. Compton Mackenzie worked for MI6—the British secret service—before writing a tome...

Well, not just yet. Maybe it's only the decline of western (literary) civilization, suggests Prague Post critic Stephan Delbos. In a meandering inquiry, he begins with a quote from a literary...

Poet Cynthia Hogue had just published When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, a book of interview-poems she co-authored with photographer Rebecca Ross, when she came across "The Voices...

On September 11th, 2001, Dan Vaughn was sitting in his survey of American Literature class when his professor announced that a plane had struck one of the World Trade Center...

A Kentucky literacy project about black jockey Isaac Murphy—a three-time Kentucky Derby winner whose athletic ability is likened to Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods—is utilizing poetry to promote reading.  A...

There's a fine line between the work of a smitten poet and a sleazy perv. When his erotic poetry was misconstrued as harassment, a shy 20-something—aka The Idiot Poet—wrote to...

The Guardian poem of the week is Martha Kapos' "A Mind of Winter," selected from her most recent collection, Supreme Being. Kapos channels the spirit of Wallace Stevens through her...

Who cares? The Anglo-American literary establishment, apparently. Anis Shivani is happily compiling his list of the 15 most overrated writers (see below). Years ago, after the death of Frost, John Berryman...