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Artist Katrina Rodabaugh has created an interdisciplinary exhibit to celebrate poet Gertrude Stein in Project Artaud’s Z Space. The exhibit features handmade dresses, letterpress prints, photographs, poetry, and dance by...

Durand will be a 2010-2011 fellow at Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. At Penn, Durand will teach a Spring 2011 undergraduate seminar, “Poetry & Poetics: The Ecology of Poetry.”...

The New York Times reports that poet Wendell Berry has moved his papers from the University of Kentucky: Mr. Berry objected to a decision to name a basketball-players’ dormitory the Wildcat...

Robert Samuel Snyderman, a 23-year-old poet from Brooklyn will write for cash. Mr. Snyderman, who is heading to Brown University to study poetry in the fall, began working as a street...

The Toronto Star reports that Griffin Poetry Prize-winner Karen Solie is having a banner year. The Saskatchewan-bred, Toronto-based poet has added Ontario’s $10,000 Trillium Book Award for Poetry to the $75,000...

The Poetry Foundation and American Life in Poetry have started a partnership with the New York Times Learning Network. Each week, they'll pair a poem with content from the paper....

In The Poetry Channel's new podcast, prominent South African poet Antjie Krog condenses 100 years of South African history and the poetic tradition of Afrikaans to 15 minutes. Using illustrative...

Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri vetoed legislation naming a former state poet laureate's poem as the official state poem. His reasoning: the lack of competition. His rhyme? You be the...

Poet, novelist, and literary critic Daniela Gioseffi claims in her "biographical novel" that Emily Dickinson's famous "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" was written about "a man by the name of William...

Wimbledon poet laureate Matt Harvey has been thinking about those grass courts and writing about it. Here's an excerpt from his latest verse. Read the rest at the Poetry Trust...