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The Los Angeles Times profiles the first Wimbledon poet-in-residence, Matt Harvey: "I plan to publish a poem a day," he told Helen Gilbert on the official Wimbledon website. "I'm going to...

King GesarSitar Doje, a 20-year old Tibetan, is the youngest known singer of the "King Gesar" ballad/creation myth: Legend has it that when he was 11, however, he had a strange...

Stephanie Young has her report on the Rethinking Poetics Conference at Columbia University in PDF form on her site: I kept saying to myself and others that the curating at such...

Fabled poetry publisher City Lights has a new Spotlight Poets series, and the Live from City Lights podcast features first two poets in that series--Anselm Berrigan and Norma Cole: The second...

K. Silem Mohammad rethinks Columbia University's Rethinking Poetry Conference: At one point during the conference, Marjorie Perloff admonished the organizers for not involving other representatives of poetry within the academy: namely,...

The Guardian explores the International Poetry Festival of Medellín in Colombia: The festival is now the largest of its kind in the world. Over eight days, free poetry recitals are held...

The New York Times looks back at a time when Bell Telephone Systems sent its corporate managers to study with Ezra Pound: Perhaps the most exciting component of the curriculum was...

After Susan Orlean started a meme on Twitter--#booksthatchangedmyworld--there's been a mutant strain appearing under #poemsthatchangedmyworld. The hits include "The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator" and "Harlem" (aka "A...

Stephen Burt reviews Karen Weiser's new book in The Believer: William Blake took dictation from “devils” and Jack Spicer compared the source of poetry to an otherworldly radio. Karen Weiser, too,...

The Caddyshack star joined a host of poets in the annual Poets Walk across Brooklyn Bridge. Forbes Magazine's Hannah Elliot was impressed: Last night was the Poets House's annual poetry...