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So ends some versions of the W.H. Auden poem “September 1, 1939.” The line—and the entire poem—provides an apt lesson for those on both sides of the Ground Zero Islamic...

The fall publishing bonanza is not yet upon us, but a few September releases have already made their way onto the contemporary best seller list this week. So while the...

In a self-interview with the Nervous Breakdown—an online magazine featuring emerging poets, authors and artists—feminist poet Donora Hillard gets intimate. She shares the story behind her new collection, Theology of...

Tom Bissell, a longtime Virginia Quarterly Review contributor, has written a defense of embattled VQR editor Ted Genoways for the New York Observer. Genoways has come under fire for workplace...

Every War Has Two Losers, a documentary based on the journals of William Stafford, features a handful of esteemed poets reading from his work. Stafford was a conscientious objector...

from Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets announced today that Michael Dickman's collection Flies (Copper Canyon Press) was chosen by poets Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Major Jackson, and Michael Ryan to receive the...

The Penn Library has published the online archive of poet photos from American Poetry Review—and there are some real humdingers. For example, John Yau (pictured). Taken from 1971-1998, the photos...

Poet Nancy Naomi Carlson believes in propagating the best poetry out there, be it in English or otherwise. Tupelo Press recently published Stone Lyre, her translation of the poems of...

Though poet and novelist James Dickey is best remembered for his novel Deliverance, he wished for his poetry to define his legacy. Dickey won a National Book Award for Buckdancer’s...