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Alejandra Pizarnik Flavorwire gives us their most anticipated poetry books of 2015! Writer Jonathon Sturgeon smartly starts with the re-release of Mina Loy's poems, The Lost Lunar Baedeker, which has...

The former art professor at MIT who recently robbed a bank in NYC's Chinatown, Joseph Gibbons, claims that he was inspired by the poet, Arthur Rimbaud: "I read the works...

                        Trevor Winkfield cover for "What It Is Like" by Charles North, 2010, acrylic on paper, 18.5 x 27 inches     [Note: This essay was written to coincide with Trevor Winkfield’s Pageant, currently...

At Slate, an argument between Robert Pinsky and Paul Muldoon about Samuel Beckett's love poem, "Cascado," is brewing. While Paul Muldoon writes "this is truly dreadful stuff" (as referenced in...

A new, monthly collection of little reviews from independent booksellers is up and running! For its first issue, The Improbable feasts on new books from Ed Sanders, Claudia Rankine, Ray...

At the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, 2013 Pew Fellow Jenn McCreary answers some questions about motivation and practice! On video! Watch it below. Questions of Practice: Jenn McCreary on...

In 1999, I was a poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Then, I had only recently finished the first set of comprehensive examinations of my doctoral...

This week, Slate presents an excerpt from Leslie Jamison's introduction to Walt Whitman's Specimen Days and Collect, published by Melville House in November 2014. From Slate: What is Specimen Days? It...

Allan Massie has summoned the spirit of T.S. Eliot to the pages of this weekend's Telegraph. In an article that he wrote about Eliot's poetry's appeal, he explains why it...

Last year, City Lights published Deep Code, by John Coletti, and a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara. At Entropy, Patrick James Dunagan considers the similarities and...