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Poet, translator, and editor of Verse magazine Brian Henry examines the tricky task of capturing a poem’s elusive essence in this BAP blog post about John Felstiner’s book Translating Neruda:...

Alice Fulton’s poem "Claustrophilia" appears in this week's New Yorker, an occasion that has prompted Alice Baumgarner to interview Fulton for the Book Bench. In their “Our Poets on...

When W.H. Auden and John Garrett edited The Poet’s Tongue, an “anti-academic” anthology intended for schools, the irony was not lost upon them. First printed 1935, the compilation was meant...

Chicago rap superstar Kanye West introduced a couple of new songs at the Facebook hq (well, yeah, but that's just how it is).  Here's one called "Mamma's Boyfriends" that he...

Poet Linda Gregg has long held the conviction that great poetry emerges from a lived life. When she won the Jackson Poetry Prize last year, an award that honors an...

For Natasha Trethewey, a post-Katrina visit to her hometown of North Gulfport, Mississippi, became the impetus for a powerful multimedia project that combines verse and photography. That project...

Your eyes locked. There were sparks. But alas, it was too late. The next morning, you turned to Craiglist’s missed connections for help, thinking you’re the only one poking around...

What happens when the innovative mind of trailblazing conceptual artist Jenny Holzer merges with the poetry of Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska? You get the façade of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary...

Is there anything John Cooper Clarke hasn’t done? The so-called “godfather of British performance poetry” has toured with the Sex Pistols and Elvis Costello, released six albums, and published a...

How will our newest poet laureate reconcile his penchant for a private life with the very public position he’s just inherited?  Merwin doesn’t see it as a conflict of interests;...