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Vanessa Place--poet, public defender, provocateur--has put together this short teaser video for the full-length digital production the 2010 Printers' Ball will showcase on July 30th. The theme for this...

Sasha Fletcher and Google-Eye Puppet (photo by Lily Ladweig)Who: Leigh Stein, Sasha Fletcher, Kathleen Rooney & “Elisa Gabbert,” Jason Koo, Sommer Browning and Noah Eli Gordon, Martin Rock, and Jason...

Some marathons are measured in pages, not miles. Dave Morice, creator of "Dr. Alphabet" and Poetry Marathons, will attempt to write 100 pages of poetry a day for 100 days....

After listening to this NPR interview with Terry Gross and former poet laureate Billy Collins discussing Emily Dickinson’s sexual preferences, CA Conrad over at Philly Sound felt a wee bit...

In a piece called "The Evolution of the High School Poet," the Christian Science Monitor showcases Urban Word NYC, a non-profit that will select six promising performers to attend the...

Forget popping Prozac. Try the healing powers of the spoken word instead. The Reader Organisation, a British charity, is tapping into the nurturing sound of the human voice intoning words...

Though Ezra Pound once advised W.S. Merwin to write seventy-five lines each day, our new Poet Laureate prefers to regularly stare at a blank sheet of paper to get the...

Toronto poet Katherine Leyton is bringing poetry to the masses, one pedestrian at a time. Here’s her foolproof formula for spinning fear of verse into poetry blog gold. 1) Approach strangers on...

In The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry, editors Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek find out whether this ambiguous genre is poetry, prose, or simply confused:...

Could the link between poets and protest movements--exemplified by Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and others-- be broken by the Tea Party? What drives these people is anger generated not by injustice, war,...