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The Richard Hugo House “huts,” located in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, have provided a safe space for a smattering of the city’s writers for one-year stints since 2003. Sadly, the...

Reviewing critic Michael Wood’s new study, Yeats and Violence, author John Banville explains that the book comprises chiefly “an extended close reading of a single poem, or, more properly, a...

Lebanese poet and writer Joumana Haddad is unafraid to tackle the taboo. She speaks with BBC News about being the editor of Jasad, an erotic magazine in Arabic, and her...

Paul Perry, writing in the Irish Times, provides American poet Philip Schultz with a winning epithet: He is held up as a laureate of failure—“If I have to believe in something...

After committing suicide at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath was laid to rest in a humble grave in the Yorkshire village of Heptonstall. As more and more visitors make...

The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt and David Mikics chronicles the well-worn and well-loved poetic form from the Renaissance to the Great Recession. Though the critical anthology includes...

A manifesto of sorts from Josh Cook over at Bookslut tries to split the difference between poetry-as-lamebrain-coterie and poetry-as vibranter-than-thou-avant-garde: As a reviewer for Bookslut for over five years, the magazine...

Poet’s workby Lorine Niedecker Lorine Niedecker Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoff from this condensery *** Read more Labor Day poetry (if you aren't out playing croquet on a...

Remember that cute video of a  Billy Collins-reciting toddler? Well, the mini-bard is back, now with some Alfred, Lord Tennyson to boot. Where did the adorable tyke pick up his...

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