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On the Bomb blog, poet Jim Behrle chats with Luke Degnan about the Boston Poet Tea Party and other celebrations. Also, about getting hit in the face. As far as...

Writer Steve Almond weighs in on the Virginia Quarterly Review tragedy in a thoughtful essay titled Let Us Now Raze Famous Men: A Rumpus Meditation on Editors, Ambition, and Angry...

Glenn Beck has launched a blog to counter the problem that "Too many important stories are overlooked." One such important story concerns two America-hating professors who supposedly plan to supply...

George Hitchcock, the influential editor of kayak magazine (1964-1984) has passed away at the age of 96. Hitchcock supported an array of up-and-coming poets, many of whom went on to...

Freelance writer A. N. Devers trekked to Baltimore in search of the home of Edgar Allan Poe. Along the way, she discovered her own need for a sense of place,...

Prominent British poets have banded together to create an online anthology of poems called Emergency Verse: Poets in Defence of the Welfare State. The e-anthology was created  in protest...

Toronto’s poet laureate Dionne Brand has instigated a new project to bring poetry to the people. The initiative, called Poetry is Public is Poetry, aims to display passages from 34...

Barnes & Noble recently announced it will permanently shut the doors of its massive 66th Street store in Manhattan this January, and even non-literary types are lamenting the closure. The...

In Human Chain, Seamus Heaney’s 12th collection, the poet has become preoccupied with aging. 'Miracle’ and 'Chanson d’Aventure’ deal with the aftermath of the stroke he suffered in 2006, while...

Over at the Best American Poetry site, Dante Michaux offers thought on Jorie Graham's evolution. He summarizes the analysis of the venerable Vendler, and continues: By recycling the examples that Vendler...