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Greg Hewett's blogging about H.D. on the Best American Poetry blog this week: In high school I became H.D.  Or at least her spirit inhabited mine as I read her out-loud...

Robyn Creswell has been named the new poetry editor at The Paris Review. “I'm thrilled to join The Paris Review as poetry editor,” Robyn writes. “The Review is one of the...

At least according to Kaleem Aftab, who interviews the Howl-actor/Yale writing student in the Independent: "The fact that Ginsberg became such a public figure is an anomaly. It jut doesn't happen...

Kevin Prufer compares D.A. Powell to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Cincinnatti Review: Powell does not aim to be merely a confessional poet; rather, beyond the framework of this narrative is...

The AP reports: Poet Maya Angelou is inviting fans of Michael Jackson to be represented in a pointillism portrait of the late singer, who died almost a year ago. Angelou's has been...

Stephen Burt posits a "turn among poets to reference, to concrete, real things" in the Boston Review: Almost all literary movements and moments expire in a crowd of imitators: what Hoagland...

Stephen Moss, erstwhile candidate for the Oxford poetry professor job, lays out his plan for the future of verse at The Guardian: People see poetry as the means of expressing powerful...

What do poets have to say about the World Cup? A lot, it turns out. As you'll see from reading Rosie Schaap's survey of, ahem, "Footy Verse". As “the world’s game,”...

Last week, scores of poets from 40 different countries gathered in Rotterdam to celebrate the 41st annual Poetry International Festival. Didn't make it to Rotterdam? No worries--visit the festival blog...

The official Wimbledon poet Matt Harvey has served the first of his daily tourney poems. Here's a peek at "thwok": thwok a game in the life bounce bounce bounce bounce thwackety wackety...