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The Pulitzer Prize winner spills the beans to Bookslut: “For instance, yesterday I received a large manila envelope from someone in Georgia. Inside I found a blank index card and a...

The Orlando Sentinel delves into the mystery of how and why poetry seems to help Alzheimer's patients: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project, founded by New York poet Gary Glazner, is not built...

The Christian Science Monitor wonders what kind of laureate W.S. Merwin will be: Each laureate is supposed to promote a greater consciousness of and appreciation for the art form. Yet in...

Check out our roundup of 4th of July poems, podcasts, articles, and more in Becca Klaver's feature "I Hear America Singing."

Poetry Daily has reprinted Jennifer Moxley's provacative essay "Fragments of a Broken Poetics" from the Chicago Review: There are two kinds of poetic seduction. One is quick, content-based, and will tolerate...

Anis Shivani at the Huffington Post spotlights a raft of independent presses: One criterion above all was used to select these 15 presses: Are these presses taking risks? Are they...

The Colorado Daily reported last week that "Naropa University has laid off 23 administrative and support staffers, and five open faculty positions will remain vacant in an effort to close...

Lynda Barry, author of, among other things, the comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek and the novel Cruddy, has written a wonderful "View From Here" feature for this month's Poetry...

Despite Anis Shivan’s rant against David Lehman’s Best American Poetry series over on the Huffington Post (headline: Why the New ‘Best American Poetry’ Sucks Even More Than Its Twenty-One Predecessors),...

As we reported below, William Stanley Merwin has been named the 17th US poet laureate, succeeding Kay Ryan at the $35,000 a year post. The news has been celebrated by publications...