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[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Amy King’s “Wings of Desire” appears in the January 2014 issue. Previous posts in this...

Students of Dr. Rafael Campo spoke to NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about poetry as an important supplement to their medical training. Click here to view their conversation, recorded live, on PBS's...

[Editor's Note: For an update on this story, please go to this Brokelyn article which reports that the original story was in fact a hoax.] Brooklyn's independently run Mellow Pages...

The editors of Commune Editions (Joshua Clover, Jasper Bernes, and Juliana Spahr) contribute to Jacket2 in a new regular feature about poets and poetry in an age of revolutions. [...]...

Introduced by Charles Bernstein, Jacket2 released into the world this astonishing close reading by Distinguished Law Professor Richard Hyland of the character of "Amelia" in Charles Reznikoff's Testimony: The United...

[Editor's Note: This "Open Door" piece is a response to Tyrone William's post "Amateur Poets and the Academy," posted on Harriet on October 21st, 2013.] When I was a student at...

Rachel Levitsky and Ariel Goldberg have had the minds' eyes to write about Moyra Davey, the artist, photographer, and writer of incredible clarity (she'll show New Yorkers at The Poetry...

A new issue of Sagetrieb: Poetry and Poetics After Modernism has just come out and is worth a look. The National Poetry Foundation began publishing Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to...

Over at The Allen Ginsberg Project, Jim Dunn reminds us that today John Wieners would have been 80 years old. The ranks of Wieners admirers seems to grow exponentially every...

A new interview with Patricia Lockwood is up at The Rumpus! Lockwood, who hit the poetry big-time after her poem "Rape Joke" took Internet flight upon publication at The Awl,...