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Andrew Durbin, author of the recently published Mature Themes (Nightboat 2014), is interviewed at Lambda Literary! Durbin talks about the original book design (his name and title are on the...

Claremont University has announced this year’s finalists for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ("given annually for a book by a poet who is past the very beginning but has...

At Entropy, John Rufo sits down with Adam Fitzgerald, co-director and co-founder of the Ashbery Home School: a unique annual conference, or "academy of the future," that will convene again...

Seattle's The Stranger writes about their own Maged Zaher, who has edited an anthology of Egyptian poets called The Tahrir of Poems. The book features seven poets, all of whom...

Al Bendich, the last living participant in the team that defended Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," against obscenity charges, passed away on January 5th in Oakland. He was 85. Benedich is also...

This in yesterday from NPR: South Carolina's Poet Laureate, Marjory Wentworth, has read poems at the last three governor's inaugural ceremonies. This year, "she says she was moved watching the...

Bon voyage says the Academy! The winners of this year's James Laughlin Award (presented by The Academy of American Poets) will receive an all-expenses paid week-long residency at The Betsy...

According to Jacket Copy's Carolyn Kellogg, Norman A. Porter Jr. (also known to the Chicago literary community as "J.J. Jameson") is up for parole. Hopefully this opportunity is less of...

Wow, if only those of us who do not reside in the fair Bay Area could grow wings and have no jobs so that we could attend this Friday's "master...

PBS News Hour has a great feature up on Bill Berkson that includes a recording of the poet reading from his recent book, Expect Delays (Coffee House 2014). The headline...