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So says the Hollywood Reporter: John Cusack will portray Edgar Allan Poe in “The Raven,” a fictional thriller being directed by James McTeigue, the Wachowskis protege who last helmed “Ninja Assassin.” Aaron...

Two highly regarded literary magazines, New England Review and Ploughshares, have recently started charging for online submissions, and poet Steve Fellner isn’t happy about it. In a recent post on...

W.S. Merwin has said he hopes to remain Hawaiian soil during his tenure as poet laureate. Its no wonder, then, that Dean Kuipers reports from Maui for the Los Angeles...

Brian Turner’s “The Hurt Locker” started as a poem and ended as a Hollywood blockbuster. In his latest collection, Phantom Noise, the poet-soldier continues to explores the contradictions of war...

Ted and Sandy Berrigan had a tumultuous marriage that began, inauspiciously enough, with Sandy's parents putting her in a mental hospital. Why? Because, in part, they thought only...

In a personal essay for this Sunday's New York Times, Pulitzer prize-winning poet and Gulf Coast native Natasha Trethewey describes how Katrina has become emblematic of loss for many residents...

That's the question the Guardian asks as it peruses the curious number of stand-up performance poets at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Historically, few genres have faced more derision (or parody)...

Porter—a friendly influence on James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch, among others—gets a little retrospective look at This Recording: Fairfield kept an apartment on Avenue A, and began to integrate...

Craig Morgan Teicher of Publisher's Weekly fame has a post up about BOA editions entry into the e-books market: Poetry publishers are just getting into e-books–Penguin does a few poetry e-books,...

Today the Telegraph reprinted highly lauded (and recently deceased) British critic Frank Kermode’s elegant 1974 essay, “A memory for poetry.” Kermode considers why loving a poet is enchanting and...