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Two months into his four-year tenure as the state poet laureate of Colorado, Dave Mason is turning to the public for ideas. The Colorado College professor and author of the...

The “Weeds” star has a brief cameo in the upcoming Ginsberg biopic Howl (have you been keeping score of how many times references to the film pop up on Harriet?...

Keith S. Wilson from We Who Are About to Die can recall the first time he read the word “appropriation”—with all of its class and race implications— in a ‘zine...

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has traveled the world over to share his poetry. A former Russian dissident and "rock star" poet in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Yevtushenko can still...

Know what's hard? Workin' in a coal mine. Know what else is hard? Writing a whole book review. Sheesh. There's the reading of the book—maybe...

In honor of the prolific novelist, essayist, and (yep) poet's 90th birthday, the Guardian has put together a quiz on all things Bradbury. Bet you didn’t know a crater on the...

Chicago poet and publisher Ronald C. Offen has died at the age of 79. Though Offen was a drama critic, book reviewer, editor, and author of five books of poetry,...

Robin Becker, the current Penn State laureate and a professor of English and women’s studies, is sharing her poetry via an online video series. In each video, she reads...

The Hook also has a follow up story with more details about the journal's current situation, as does the Chronicle of Higher Education.

George Bowering was Canada’s first parliamentary poet laureate in 2002. Today, he’s the official loudmouth fan at Canadian baseball games—at least, according to his business card. Back in the day...