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Christian Science Monitor and Goodreads report that after comprehensive study, the verdict is in: men prefer to read books by men, women prefer to read books by women. More at...

CAConrad has announced the annual SEXIEST POETRY AWARD! This year's honor goes to six books, instead of one title. They are more than deserving. "The six titles below are books that...

What's Stephen Burt reading? Recently, it's books by Daniel Borzutzky, Tytti Heikkinen (translated by Niina Pollari), and Adam Sol. From Boston Review: If you write a book of poetry about...

The New Yorker's Dan Chiasson reads Olena Kalytiak Davis's newest collection of poems: The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems. The poet Olena Kalytiak Davis’s new book, her third,...

1 In Don Mee Choi's new and excellent pamphlet Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation (Wave Books, 2014), she says the following about her work translating the amazing Korean poet Kim Hyesoon: ...

Wow! What's not to like about this?! A powerful, brand-new technology called IRENE will help listeners at the Woodberry Poetry Room finally hear "The Cantos" as read by Ezra Pound,...

Photo credit: Andrew Tolson [Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Molly Peacock’s “The Poet” and “Q’s Quest” appears in the December...

From "A Supermarket in California" to Tesco, The Guardian's Kathryn Bromwich illuminates poetry's known and unknown ties to the grocery store. In England, most supermarkets lack poetry books within the...

Over the weekend we were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Strand. The New York Times reports: Mark Strand, whose spare, deceptively simple investigations of rootlessness, alienation and...

Columbia University's Spectator profiles chess player and beloved bookseller Adhemar Ahmad, whose first publication--a children's book illustrated by Ahmad himself--is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Ahmad has been trying...