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The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted a story this month about the soon-to-be released Department of Education report that "documents the death of tenure": Over just three decades, the proportion...

Children’s poems need not be sugarcoated with silliness.  Rather, they should embody the “dual ideals of musicality and truthfulness,” according to Slate poetry editor Robert Pinsky. He selected three poets...

Whether it's a painter making a cartoon of the Statue of Liberty from globs of oil or poets reinterpreting BP’s language through subversive verse, artist of all sorts are voicing...

Poet and critic Ange Mlinko, who has spent the past year in Beruit, writes in The Nation about  Barry J. Blake's new book Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and...

The Paris Review recently changed poetry editors - from Dan Chiasson and Meghan O'Rourke to Robyn Creswell - and it appears that some poets accepted by the former have been...

In Phantom Noise, poet and Iraq War veteran Brian Turner chronicles the broader context of war by juxtaposing the brutality of battle with the comforts of civilian life. Turner explores...

Though John Keats will always be remembered first and foremost as a poet, a new biography examines his extensive background in medicine and the influence of the healing arts upon...

The wacky wordsmith from Wasilla is at it again!  Back for another epic showdown, it’s Palin vs. the English language, and it seems our favorite Alaskan underdog has quite a...

:( A student poetry workshop to be held at a Robert Frost museum in Vermont has ended as "The Program Not Taken," after only one person enrolled . . .

It’s official: a full-fledged beat renaissance is now underway. Archivist Bill Morgan is out with two new beatnik books, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (a collection of correspondences)...