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Newberry Award Medal-winning poet Kwame Alexander stepped into the studios at NPR's "Morning Edition" to talk about some of the best poems and poets for children. His appearance is timely, as...

At Literary Hub, Adam Fitzgerald and Emily Skillings have organized a birthday celebration for John Ashbery, who is 90 years old this year. They've invited 90 of his dearest friends...

On the occasion of his recent "2-for-1" collection, Before Dawn on Bluff Road/Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected New Jersey Poems/Selected San Francisco Poems, New Jersey-born, San Francisco-based poet August Kleinzahler speaks with...

At Jacket2, Stephen Collis reviews Layli Long Soldier's Whereas, as part of a new commentary called "The Rise of the Biotariat," in which Collis hopes to read poetry closely "along two trajectories: first, a poetry...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith is soon to commence her tenure as U.S. poet laureate, if you weren't aware. She recently talked with CBS This Morning and the 14th Librarian of...

When I decided to do this series of interviews based on how poet and scholar Tyrone Williams defines and depicts our "generations" in his intro to mary wants to be...

Poet Laureate of Sacramento (and playwright) Indigo Moor's latest collection of poetry, In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers, weaves together the lives of entertainer Paul Robeson and Shakespeare's Othello to...

Canadian literary journal, The Walrus, excerpts a selection from Matthew Zapruder's recently published Why Poetry? (Ecco, 2017). In it, Zapruder reflects on his relationship with his late father, and explores the ways that poetry helped...

The Guardian reports on a new opera opening this weekend that is based on the memories of Siegfried Sassoon's niece and goddaughter, Sister Jessica Gatty. Gatty maintained a close friendship...