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Al Filreis quotes from Herbert Mitgang's book Dangerous dossiers: exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors (New York : D.I. Fine, 1988), which summarizes the FBI's Ginsbergian paper trail...

"Ask a Poet" at the online lit mag The Smart Set tries to tackle the age-old question: I think of poetry as a boys’ club. Do female poets have to learn...

Salt Publishing has put together a survey for readers of literary magazines in the digital age:

The online journal Delirious Hem is soliciting tributes--both poetic and scholarly--to the poet Leslie Scalapino, who died last month: Leslie Scalapino's writing placed inside/outside events together with/in spacetime. Reading Leslie...

Author Aife Murray talks about the influence of servants on Emily Dickinson's poetry at VOAnews: The American poet Emily Dickinson wrote the lines "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you...

In the American Scholar, Joel E. Cohen explains what A.E. Housman has to do with Like poetry, applied mathematics combines multiple meanings, economy, pattern, and mystery. In its scientific or...

(Bill Murray in Groundhog Day)From the LA Times: On June 14, the Poets House in New York hosts its annual benefit poetry walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. As participants cross...

Robert Hass in The Believer: Listening to their poems on that day two years ago, listening to them talk about the projects of their poetry, I was moved by their intensity...

from the Bookshelf Porn tumblr, which features no nudies, just shelves and shelves of books.

The Seattle Times reviews Frances McCue's digressions on some poems by Richard Hugo, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo, in...