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In an excerpt of her book, "In my View," on Huffington Post, French artist Annette Messager reflects on how William Blake influences her work: Blake is, for me, both a child...

"The Ones" by ETMCA Here's the latest in enigmatic poetry ventures: an experimental artist is giving his poetry art away--in pieces, hidden in books scattered around Los Angeles. Galleycat has the...

This week, as part of our ongoing quest to stay youthful, your intrepid poetry reporters endeavored to think like scientists, move beyond our comfort zones, and get to the bottom...

Alan Williamson at The Los Angeles Review of Books claims that Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi "is so notoriously difficult to translate that, as Italo Calvino once complained, 'beyond the borders...

At The Believer Logger: an interview with Rae Armantrout! It's Ali Liebegott's fifth stop (we covered a coupla others here and here). They start with a very important topic: BLVR: Can...

Trethewey, Collins, and Smith are still rocking the top three spots on this week’s contemporary best-sellers list. Last week Mark Strand’s Almost Invisible disappeared from the list, only to materialize...

Huffington Post blogger Marcus Brock interviewed poet Jade Foster about her upcoming "Revival" poetry tour, which kicks off in Brooklyn tonight. "Through this poetry tour, women open their homes to...

This summer, Karen Kukil, the associate curator of special collections at Smith College received an envelope from alumna Marcia (Marty) Brown Stern. In it was an unedited, unpublished poem by...

Hey kitcats. Poems in protest for Pussy Riot! We knew it had to be. Head over to ENGLISH PEN because they are mightily behind the sword--something like that: On Monday 1...

Poet, Critic, and all-around badass Maggie Nelson offers up her thoughts on shock in art for the NY Times. Here's a sample. The book mentioned is Nelson's The Art of Cruelty: Q....