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Here's the book trailer for Eileen Myles' s forthcoming Inferno (a poet's novel) about becoming a poet:

Forbes has dispatched a literary sleuth to decode the Leo Marks's poem read at Chelsea Clinton's wedding over the weekend. Known as "The life that I have," the poem...

In this morning's New York Times Book Review, Christopher Benfrey reviews the hot biography of Emily Dickinson's family, Lives Like Loaded Guns: What is it about Emily Dickinson that invites metaphors...

Salvador Dalí’s "Christ of St. John of the Cross" is now an iconic image, but little is know about the 16th century sketch by the Carmelite friar and poet that...

Ron Silliman posted a note on his blog today saying that he is turning off comments. An excerpt: I have of course read some comments that suggest that poets who...

That's what Brian Henry wants to know over on the Best American Poetry blog. Henry cites Matthew Zapruder’s piece on the nature of poetry criticism, which sparked over 220...

Will the "slam" help him govern in prose?

Tonight, at the Ludington Building of Columbia College in Chicago, the sixth annual Printers' Ball will host over 250 literary organizations from around the world in a celebration of print...

Poets Francisco Aragón and Brenda Cárdenas began dialoguing in an airport shuttle on the way to the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and they haven’t stopped since. In an e-conversation...

This weekend 88 poets will gather in Cambridge as the Boston's poetry marathon returns after a half-decade hiatus, once again headed by vocal poet/organizer/rabble-rouser Jim Behrle. The idea is the...