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Poets Charles Simic and Joshua Clover weigh in on the dire state of the economy in The New York Review of Books and The Nation, respectively.  Here are their dismal...

Anis Shivani's list of the 15 most overrated American writers—including such squint-inducingly bright lights as Jhumpa Lahiri and Mary Oliver —has led to well over 15 pages of comments. For...

Three whimsical poems by Wayne Koestenbaum, "The Bitter Tears of Alexander Scriabin," "Archaic Awe," and "Dossier of Irretrievables" appear in the AWL's Poetry Section this week.  Here's a shot of...

Publishers Weekly has expanded its online empire with a shining new Poetry Reviews Tumblr. There, you'll find updates about PW's poetry reviews, profiles, and of course, the latest poetry publications....

A benefit to perusing the The Paris Review's redesigned website?  The treasure trove of interviews with monumental poets, novelists and journalists. Pick and chose for yourself amongst the smörgåsbord of conversations,...

New York-based writer Jeffrey Cyphers Wright reviews Bill Berkson's Portrait and Dream, Afzal Ahmed Syed's Rococo and Other Worlds, and Michele Madigan Somerville's Black Irish in the latest Brooklyn Rail....

Poetry doesn't bite. Nor does it talk back (most of the time.) So why are so many people  afraid of a few lines of verse? David Lucus, the poetry columnist...

Robert Bringhurst's Selected Poems is lyrical and spartan, authoritative without being didactic. In a fresh and dewy critique in the Guardian, Kate Kellaway likens reading Bringhurst's poems to...

Syria, like America, is not entirely comfortable with poetry. But its situation is a tad more dire than ours, according to NYU professor Sinan Antoon, who is quoted in this...

"Imagine that this essay began not with the sentence you’re reading, but with the following observation, attributed to Wittgenstein." So David Orr begins his New York Times Book Review essay...