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Two recent British television shows—a series on the Norman conquest and a program titled The Battle for North America—exclude important battlefield verse and readers of the Telegraph are getting huffy:...

Though Keats’ career was cut short by untimely death, his legacy as one of the most revered Romantics lives on. Poet David Biespiel explains why Keats, though reviled by...

Ghazi Algosaibi, a Saudi Arabian statesman, public servant, and poet, died Saturday in Cairo. The poet often came under fire from various factions for the views he expressed in his...

Paul Constant—profiler of cowboy poets and Stranger books editor—says yep. And leading the charge will be the Stranger Genius Award winners, including poet John Olson: Everyone knows that where the...

That’s one of the questions Neil de la Flor tries to answer as he gently interrogates Steven Cordova about his first collection of poems, Long Distance. The interview is included...

The Best American Poetry blog has a letter from O'Hara to his friend/muse/collaborator Larry Rivers. A taste: . . . but really, I don't see why one shouldn't enjoy something...

In honor of Ramadan, we’ve recently posted a series of poems, podcasts, and features celebrating Muslim faith and Islamic culture in our features section. The very origins of Ramadan,...

Though thee and thou sound formal to modern ears—as in "Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?"—they were originally used as intimate versions of the second person pronoun. Mark...

The Chronicle of Higher Education explores the recent suicide by Kevin Morrissey, managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and what it might mean for the prestigious literary journal. ...