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True Friendship, Christopher Ricks's study of personal and poetic connections among five writers -- T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Anthony Hecht, Geoffrey Hill, and Robert Lowell -- received a warm review...

HTMLGIANT interviews Nicole Walker about her latest collection of poetry, This Noisy Egg. Walker talks about the importance of lists, why there would be fewer "douche bags" if more...

In the Guardian, Carol Rumens examines a poem traditionally considered so bad it's good—good enough for inclusion in X. J. Kennedy's Pegasus Rising, a landmark anthology of terrible poetry. She...

Susan Steinberg and Cate Marvin of VIDA:Women in Literary Arts are crunching numbers and taking names. They did the math for the Rumpus to determine the online literary magazine's gender...

In this installment of his monthly "classic poem" feature, Slate poetry editor Robert Pinsky examines two of William Blake's poems, both called "The Chimney Sweeper." One comes from the Romantic...

Poet Chad Sweeney pulls a Don Quixote with The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney de las Minas de Cobre. Sweeney (Chad? Juan?) created an alter-ego who then "created" The Lost...

In this video, poet Alicia Ostriker contemplates what makes some people "frozen and paralyzed" in the presence of a real live poet. Take a watch and listen to Ostriker's...

Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska grasps with words what photographer Richard Drew captured in his  now famous "Photograph from September 11."  Both the photograph and the poem depict a man falling from the...

...let the herring spoil and the matzoh ball soup boil over, too. Yosefa Raz, the poetry editor at Zeek, a journal of Jewish thought, argues that a cultural or historical reference...