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Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate, will share her PEN/Pinter prize with Syrian writer Samar Yazbek. Yazbek, who is currently living in exile, is the author of Woman in...

From UPI: Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros died in Lima after a battle with lung cancer, his family said. He was 69. The Andina news agency confirmed his Saturday death. Cisneros studied literature at...

Marilyn Hacker took part in this interview at Guernica, focusing primarily on her translation of Tales of a Severed Head, by Moroccan poet Rachida Madani. A little bump before the...

From Global Times: Poets are typically renowned for their mastery of words, yet few dabble in other art forms away from prose. Bei Dao, whose real name is Zhao Zhenkai, is...

Art writer, poet, and darewesay critic Barry Schwabsky has lent his hand to Hyperallergic again, having covered Peter Manson's new Mallarmé translation in late July. Schwabsky reviews, this time around,...

In Poetry's September issue, we published a poem by Mary Karr entitled "Suicide's Note: An Annual." Karr discussed the inspiration for this poem, David Foster Wallace's suicide, at a New...

We reported on Jorie Graham winning the UK's Forward Prize, here. Now, see this article in The Daily Beast on Graham being the first American woman to win the prize,...

New at The Rumpus: Peter Orner remembers Victor Martinez (who passed away last year, and happens to have a library named after him). After beginning with a poem from Anna...

From Hull and East Riding: An eye-catching spectacle will now greet patients at a Hull clinic. Three pairs of poet Philip Larkin's glasses form part of the artwork on display at Hull...

One of poetry's favorite prose stylists, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, has some new books out, including a Belladonna* book of poems! Furthermore, these have just been reviewed at HTMLGIANT by Bay...