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Philadelphia has named Raquel Salas Rivera the city's newest adult poet laureate, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. John Timpane talked with Rivera about the gig, her relationship to the city, and self-identifying as...

My first poetry professor, in undergrad, used to talk a lot about “the lyric moment” in a poem. I’m not sure if this is a thing a lot of people...

On the 70th anniversary of the death of Kurt Schwitters, BBC News reports on the honors that are planned in the rural area of Cumbria, England, where Schwitters's Merz Barn...

The New York Times features an adapted version of Angela Flournoy's introduction to a new Penguin edition of poet Langston Hughes's 1930 novel, Not Without Laughter, in its Book Review section. Flournoy...

Poet Mark Nowak is the subject of a feature at Albany's Times Union that explores his workshops with Capital Region immigrants, where they learn to write poetry and become more confident English speakers...

Some good news coming out of Jacket Copy on Friday. The Library of Congress has made Jacqueline Woodson the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. An award-winning author, Woodson has...

For Fanzine, Vi Khi Nao talks to her new press-mate Andrew Wessels, a poet and translator whose book A Turkish Dictionary was released from 1913 Press earlier this year. With one in Vegas, the other...

He influenced the Last Poets and worked as a political activist with the African National Congress, serving as poet laureate in 2006—now the world mourns the death of Keorapetse Kgositsile, announced...

Last week the Paris Review posted a profile on the proto-polymath (Dadaist, performance poet/artist, troll?), boxer, huckster, and lover and spouse to Mina Loy... none other than Arthur Cravan. Cravan...

The artist-run space Machine Project, based in Los Angeles, is shutting its doors after 15 years, reports Artforum. If you've gone through LA as a poet, there's a chance you...