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The New York Times pays heed to the centennial of John Berryman's birth, for not to "would be to shuck a very large obligation indeed." For the occasion, Farrar, Straus...

While explaining Hannah Weiner's telegram in Art in the Mind, a study of conceptual art at Oberlin in 1970, Patrick Durgin walks readers through a few pieces that he has...

Mercedes Eng most recent contribution to Jacket 2 looks at Vancouver's tent city through the lens of two poetic texts about the built environment: Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Work and Seven...

How do you find all the poems fit to print? That's a question Elizabeth Lorang asked in her quest to catalog poetry published in newspapers from the 18th to the...

At The Small Press Book Review, rob mclennan reviewed Vancouver poet Cecily Nicholson's second book, From the Poplars (Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 2014). A book-length documentary poem that points to an...

Just a few weeks ago, an international poetry festival—REVERSE 2014—took place in Copenhagen. Participating poets and scholars were Steven Zultanski, Vanessa Place, and Robert Fitterman from stateside; Susanne Christensen, from...

The Washington Post bears additional news about the fate of British-Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser who Homeland Security barred from entering the United States last month. As WP writes: “Poetry can...

Yinka Shonibare MBE, The British Library. Photograph: Jonathan Bassett The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the October issue share some books...

Los Angeles Times announces LA's new Poet Laureate! The position goes to poet, youth activist, and memoirist Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. "Luis...

The Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet, Carolyn Kizer, has died at the age of 89. She passed away on Thursday in Sonoma, California, due to complications of dementia. Kizer is best known...