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Yaddo, the famed Saratoga Springs artists’ community (its castle pictured above), has seen its fair share of literary genius. Founded by Katrina Trask, a poet and playwright herself, this sanctuary...

The rediscovery of letters to police from New Jersey poet Alfred Starr Hamilton has piqued new interest in his work—yet no one can seem to decide what to think of...

The Pakistan Academy of Letters is planning a series of events to commemorate the centenary of Pakistan’s premier Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The Academy hopes to promote...

Two stellar new poetry collections, John Beer’s The Waste Land and Other Poems and Dorothea Lasky’s Black Life, are juxtaposed in a review by former BOTH editor Michael Brodeur at...

Oh, wouldn’t we all? In The Philosophy of As If, Canadian poet Fraser Sutherland gets existential and looks at the imagined lives running parallel to the one lived. Katia Grubisic...

Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems by Eamon Grennan is filled with nourishing poems that become “daily bread” for his readers. Grennan, the prize-winning author of over 10...

Lane Smith's new children’s book, It’s a Book, wants you to know it’s, um, a book. You know, the kind with pages you can flip (without the click of...

Charles Bukowski would have been 90 last week. Unfortunately, he died. His would-be birthday did cause his posthumous collections to surge on the contemporary best seller list, though, which may...

To Light Out, Karen Weiser’s first collection of poetry, is an array of unexpected juxtapositions. It’s both static and music, big and small, solid and liquid. Perhaps she’s trying to...

In a recent New York Review of Books essay titled "Why Has He Fallen Short?," Frank Rich lamented the disillusionment among liberals with the Obama administration. Adam Kirsch, a senior...