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For the duration of the Olympic Games at Sochi this winter, Kwame Dawes's Olympic Poetry has been a feature. Read his poem that says goodbye to the games at WSJ....

Charlotte, North Carolina's WFAE has Craig Morgan Teicher writing about the relatively unknown poet Michael Benedikt (1935-2007), who was briefly the managing editor of Locus Solus in the sixties, and...

Creative Capital's blog, The Lab, features an excerpt from Creative Capital grantees Tracie Morris and Queen Godls's recent conversation at The Brooklyn Museum. We excerpt their conversation here. (Be sure...

If you're NYC-bound next week and the city hasn't been besieged by massive floodwaters as the whopping total of 56.6 inches of snowfall melts—find inspiration to go out with a...

Sometimes I misread. And sometimes: words. When I was seven, in school, once a girl ran up to me and pulled me into a neighboring room, saying, “Someone wrote your name...

PopFront inaugurates its "Marxist Mixtape" series with Allen Ginsberg's "The Ballad of the Skeletons." PopFront writes, "The goal of Marxist Mixtape is to cover individual songs from any era or...

As we like to do every year to kick off the AWP festivities, the Poetry Foundation will be hosting a reception, free and open to the public, Thursday, February 27...

Today marks the 100th release for Gauss PDF, the publisher of digital and physical works that we've pointed you to again and again and again, because we mean it. "Initiated...

James Patterson, author of bestsellers like Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider is gifting thousands of dollars to fifty independent booksellers across the country as a way to...

[Note: From time to time Poetry features online exclusives from contributors. This installment comes from John Kinsella, who wrote about Jam Tree Gully in “Vermin: A Notebook” in December 2009....