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A profile of this year's Wimbledon Poet: In 2010, Wimbledon introduced Matt Harvey, 47, the witty and somewhat overwhelmed rhapsodist charged with turning the tournament’s glorified traditions into verse. He...

Brad Stone of the New York Times looks into whether the soon-to-launch Google Editions, the Don't Be Evil company's foray into digital books, will help or hurt the struggling indie...

Stephen Elliot's online literary rumpus room, The Rumpus, has franchised out their Book Club. Now, in addition to their "One Rumpus, One Book" club, there is the Rumpus Poetry...

From the NYT: W. S. Merwin acknowledges that his relatively reclusive life on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano in Maui, Hawaii, will be disturbed by the Library...

The Kitchen Sisters (aka Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, NPR producers) have put together a multimedia piece on the poetry of CD Wright and her work with the photographer Deborah...

Zach Layton, Brooklyn composer and Whitman fan, has gathered together a boatload of artists, musicians, and writers for "I Do Not Doubt I Am Limitless: Walt Whitman's Brooklyn," a celebration...

Austin DickinsonOver at Slate, Adam Kirsch digs into the "new" secrets about the Dickinsons revealed in Lives Like Loaded Guns: At 2:30 in the afternoon, the poet's brother, Austin—a married father...

Eclipse, the new installment of the Twilight Saga, opens with the heavy-breathing Bella reciting Robert Frost to vampire beau Edward. From the NYT review: The day is just sunny enough...

The Pensacola News Journal looks back at the life and work of Reginald Shepherd, who died in September of 2008 and whose book of essays, A Martian Muse, was just...

The Guardian reminds us that not everyone is Jonathan Safran Foer: The mystery of Walt Whitman, explored in the latest New York Review of Books, goes deeper still. Until Leaves of...