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Great Wave, 2012 by Guy Laramée The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the December issue share some books that held their...

At The Wall Street Journal, Abigail Deutsch writes about New Directions founder James Laughlin. "When he wasn’t running a publishing house, running a ski resort or running around, Laughlin wrote...

Massachusetts is actually one of the few states in the U.S. that doesn't already have a system in place for appointing a state-wide poet laureate. However, according to the Boston...

Black poets are speaking out! In response to the killing of unarmed African-American men like 18- year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri earlier this year, poets from the esteemed African-American...

Book Culture's Small Press Spotlight interviews the editors of Projective Industries, Kate McIntyre, Stephanie Anderson, and Karen Lepri. And while "projective" might recall Charles Olson's "Projective Verse," McIntyre says that...

           At the end of daybreak. . . Beat it, I said to him, you cop, you lousy pig, beat it,            Aimé Cesairé, from “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”            (tr....

Last week, on the heels of the Eric Garner grand jury decision, PBS News Hour posted a video of Claudia Rankine reading from Citizen on the violent deaths of black...

It's not easy to be a touring slam poet when you're still in school. Dejanique "Daisy" Armstrong joined a youth poetry collective in Stockton, CA while struggling through adolescence...

In a new post for VIDA's Reports from the Field, poet and publisher Amy Berkowitz's "Paintings I Won’t Paint" addresses some oft-topical subjects, to her own chagrin: rape and poetry....

Yes that's right! This Saturday, three students from Nashville High Schools will compete for the title of Youth Poet Laureate of the City of Nashville. Go get 'em Cassidy Martin,...