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A rain of poems landed on Berlin on Saturday, dispersed by German and Chilean helicopters with hopes of spreading a message of peace. Poems not bombs! Hopefully...

The Guardian publishes a Bank Holiday special: Vona Groarke's "The Pier." It's a happy poem, which critic Carol Rumens considers nearly a paradox. An excerpt: Nod to a fisherman propped on...

Also in this month's Boston Review, Alissa Valles unveils the little-recognized gifts of Irish poet Harry Clifton. She admires his "solidity," which she considers . . . . ....

In this month's Boston Review, poet Richard Deming evaluates Ann Lauterbach's latest collection, Or to Begin Again. He frames the book in terms of contemporary politics, and bears in mind...

...in which a self-important poet talks about the innovate chapbook he’s working on and another self-important poet tells him to branch out as they stare into mugs of black coffee. Note:...

Some writers find inspiration in the stories of their lives. For novelist Michael Sledge, his life took a cue from his work. While working on The More I Owe You,...

In the wake of managing editor Kevin Morrissey's suicide and the subsequent allegations of bullying levied against editor Ted Genoways, the award-winning literary journal has removed the remaining staff members...

The Telegraph has the story of Paul Hurt, an animal rights protester who traversed great distances to a Seamus Heaney reading in order to rage against the poet's perceived love...

Over on the Tinfish blog, editor Susan M. Schultz outlines her argument for poetry in a time when most universities are in a deep financial freeze: I am arguing that, if...

Dante Micheaux is blogging this week at the Best American Poetry, and he's spending some quality time with Robert Hayden: Hayden was such an adept poet that he could not be...