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Nick Lantz, a Wisconsin poet who has been posting a “micropoem” a day on Twitter for the past few months, has two books on the contemporary best seller...

Photo: Liza Voll at the New York TimesThe collaboration between poet and critic Anne Carson and dancer-choreographer Rashaun Mitchell has resulted in a multi-layered mash-up of poetry and dance. Carson’s...

@We Who Are About to Die, a Part 4 in which another rejected poet explains why he's sad. @Nothing to Say and Saying It, John Gallaher gives us the new theme...

Poet, filmmaker, and novelist Jean Cocteau was a fighting member of the avant-garde, sure, but music magazine Arthur doesn’t want us to forget that M. Cocteau was involved in a...

Former poet laureate Charles Simic thinks the losers of a soccer game - players, fans, and coaches - see themselves as actors in a much larger drama beyond the one...

Is romance dead? Not according to biographer Daisy Hay. When she set about researching her new book, Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation, she wanted to...

Deadspin writer Drew Magary enjoys himself some Roger Ebert tweets. But he does not enjoy  himself some Roger Ebert "poetry" re-tweets. And so Magary has put together a...

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Since the recent snafu at The Paris Review - in which the recently installed poetry editor Robyn Creswell de-accepted previously accepted poems - the blogosphere has been abuzz with...

The UK's prestigious Forward poetry prize announced its shortlist yesterday, with Seamus Heaney leading a group that, according to the Guardian, is notably Walcott-less: An expected clash between Nobel laureates Seamus...