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After Billy Collins softly lambasted e-readers, it seemed like poetry and technology were doomed to an unhappy marriage. Not so, according to Sandra Beasley, who offers an insightful critique on technology...

In an interview with Publisher’s Weekly, Thomas Sayers Ellis explains the title of second collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. He also discusses his tribute poems to James Brown and...

Kristen Hoggart was perhaps an unusual child: she enjoyed reciting somber, melancholy poetry from the tender age of six. So what is it about sad poems that resonates...

When Karen Long abandoned her desk for a $3 copy of Leaves of Grass, she got more than her money's worth: she describes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer how the...

In Sasha Pimentel Chacón's Insides She Swallowed the award-winning poet debuts a complex palate of emotions and ideas in this her first collection. According to Marion Rohrleitner in the El...

Craig Morgan Teicher at the Publishers Weekly blog has news for the poetry sales poor-mouthers: Who says people don’t read poetry? Certainly not the best minds of any generation. ...

In 1992, Sally Potter directed a then mostly-unknown young actress named Tilda Swinton in a singular adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. The film became a feminist and literary...

A poetry video might sound incongruous, but for poet Todd Boss, it’s the perfect mash-up of mediums. “The God of Our Farm Had Blades,” is a motionpoem, a miniature film...

Norman Porter Jr. - aka Jacob “J.J.” Jameson – was convicted of murder in Massachusetts 20 years ago before he escaped from jail and fled to Chicago. Here, he...

On her blog, poet Barbara Jane Reyes reflects on a recent talk at the San Francisco Public Library by Diane Di Prima entitled “Making it Happen.” In her "Report...