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On the blog of the publishing house Futurepoem, poet Dawn Lundy Martin offers an analysis of Ronaldo V. Wilson's poem "Dream in a Fair." More precisely—since the poem...

Seriously ill children in Chicago are learning there's more than one way to heal. Snow City Arts (a Poetry Foundation partner) fosters arts education for hospitalized children throughout Chicago with...

In the latest issue of Triple Canopy, a literary-and-beyond online magazine, a click-through poem generator toys with the idea of the "materiality" of Internet publishing.  The premise of the piece...

The Rona Jaffe Foundation, which grants awards to female writers of exceptional talent, just announced which poets will receive prizes: Sara Elizabeth Johnson and Poetry magazine contributor Laura Newbern. ...

A bike blog based in Queens has reprinted a poem that originally appeared in the New York Times in 1926. The poem is, to put it mildly, terrible. In Queens, to...

Attention! Poet Michael Earl Craig has taken over the Harriet Twitter feed this month.  Interested parties can follow him @harriet_poetry.  Here's his first post: "Hello people, I'm cracking my twitter...

"How we or anything exists/Is cranky extravagance"  So begins Jordan Davis's poem, "When I Was The Subject," a playful piece slithering down the page of the Boston Review in short, concise...

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame has expanded his Ecstatic Yod empire in Western Massachusetts to now include the Ecstatic Peace Library, an independent publishing house. Does the man have...

British literary critic and poet Rory Waterman takes on one of the most—mean? hilarious?—well, distinctive voices in poetry reviewing today. We speak of the—terrifying? tantalizing?—William Logan. Here he is on...

Daniel Swift, a young British literary critic, sets out to solve the riddles of literary and familial history in his new book, Bomber County. The volume combines criticism and memoir,...