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James Longenbach reviews Lives Like Loaded Guns, Lyndall Gordon's account of Emily Dickininson's family's feuds and the poet's possible epilepsy, in The Nation: The great virtue of Gordon's biography is that...

Becca Klaver has put together a great list of poems from the archive, as well as a list of articles, podcasts, and Harriet posts that reflect on all things fatherly...

After reporting earlier in the day about the last-minute shenanigans in the Oxford poetry professor race, Dave Itzkoff brings the circus to a close: The 2010 race for Oxford University’s professor...

Sarah Crown at the Guardian lists the essential contemporary UK poets, causing commenters to cry crap and present perplexing logic puzzles: Oh Sarah Crown, what a dull and unimaginative list! These...

The NY Daily News spotlights the 27th annual McDonald's Gospelfest in Newark, NJ: "To me, gospel ... lets people know that God can really change your life," said Barlatier, who as...

David L. Ulin, editor of one of the last great daily newspaper books sections, will become a full-time book critic for the LA Times: Ulin says he's excited by the challenges...

From Carlos Rowles: Avant garde writing, which became formalized as a mature genre around the time of the first Iraq war with the publication of Leslie Scalapino's Defoe, and has languished...

Tony Hoagland's new book, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, jumps two spots on this week's best seller list to number 3, just ahead of Anne...

The excellent Milwaukee bookstore Woodland Pattern is co-sponsoring a Lorine Niedecker seminar in Door County this August called Reading the Ridges: Lorine Niedecker and the Natural Worlds of Wisconsin....

An anonymous former staffer at a publishing house talks about what it's like to be female in that world: Ever since the news about CEO of Penguin Canada, David Davidar's,...