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If reading poems about love is awesome and actually being in love is even better, then what could top receiving poems about love from you beloved?  Nothing, suggests dating blogger...

A classic reading of Sir Walter Scott's "Proud Maisie" offers a dire prediction for the fair lass. Maisie vainly solicits a watchful robin, who predicts her wedding day will be...

In a funny, wide-ranging interview with Dorothea Lasky, Bookslut contributor Elizabeth Hildreth inquires about poetry, pointedness, even periods. (Not the punctuation.) She quotes one of Lasky's poems, praising it for its...

In The New York Observer, Michael Miller presents a long and amiable description of hanging out with New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon. The occasion was the publication of Muldoon's...

What happens when an exiled poet and a shy young postal clerk cross paths? They ignite a love affair between the poet and a charming waitress, and leave a legacy...

Mary Ruefle’s new Selected Poems, gathered from her ten books of poetry, is a well-curated collection with a smattering of art references, a sprinkle of airy humor, and a pinch...

Each month, a group of Russian left-wing activists and amateur poets gather in a Moscow square to eat chocolates, drink cognac and read politically charged poetry that challenges government policies....

Elif Batuman, whose dorkily delicious autobiography-cum-literary history The Possessed came out last winter, has written the longest piece of literary criticism we've ever seen. But it's worth the hour and...

The British Library has acquired some illuminating letters written by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to Hughes' sister, as well as a handful of Hughes' unpublished poems. "Luxury is stuffed...

Do you like bears? Do you like poetry? Do you like bears reciting poetry? Well, we can't help you with that last one, but if you like the...