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Lewis Freedman is at his amazing scanning again. The Wisconsin-based poet and scholar has uploaded to Flying Object his latest "Scan by Lew": WELCOME TO THE TWELFTH LETTER OF THE...

This just in from Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff. Sad news for New American Writing: Friends of New American Writing: Maxine and I have decided to cease publication of the magazine...

Carol Ann Duffy, the current poet laureate, selected the 2014 committee which selected Dharker as the medal's recipient. A Pakistan-born British poet, Imtiaz Dharker is the author of numerous books...

--which includes books of poetry, obviously. Let's check out Dwight Garner's "best of" list which features Erin Belieu's newest book of poetry, Slant Six, and poet/novelist, Ben Lerner's new book...

The recommendations are flowing like sand in soapy hourglasses. Lists of best-of-2014 publications are everywhere. Here are some. Some! How could we possibly keep track? These are in not much...

The house where Elizabeth Bishop spent her formative years is for sale for a mere $130,000. Located in Great Village, Nova Scotia, the house appears in many of her poems...

We heard this was coming! Jonas Mekas writes about Pier Paolo Pasolini for the newest issue of BOMB! & now, here is me, in the depths of Brooklyn, years later,...

This year the UK's Department for Culture, Media, and Sport commissioned a study called "The Independent Library Report for England." The study's findings have been made public and as the...

Major Jackson is interviewed at Please Excuse This Poem, the online extension of 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, forthcoming from Viking in March. This is a fun interview...

Poet, performance-writer, sound artist, and critic Holly Pester reviews Revolution: A Reader--compiled by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler and co-published by Publication Studio in North America and Paraguay Press in...