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Natasha Trethewey once again leads the pack with Thrall on this week’s contemporary best-seller list. Back from the dead is Billy Collins with his book of horoscopes… for the dead,...

From Omnidawn: We are very excited to announce the winner of Omnidawn’s 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest: The Middle by Angela Hume, selected by Joseph Lease. The finalists of the 2012 contest are (in...

Three previously unpublished poems by Maria Alyokhina, one of the three jailed Pussy Riot members, appeared on The Huffington Post today. You can also read the full lyrics to a...

When we reported on this last week we didn't know just how awesome and deluxe the pre-sale of Pink Thunder would be. Now we know. If you pre-order the book...

A few weeks back, we announced a poetry contest that awarded the winners' poems with a trip to space. The results are in, and judge Simon Armitage sent two poems...

The recipients of the Amy Award, presented by Poets and Writers, have been announced! The award is presented "each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living...

Wonderful news coming from the Academy of American Poets today. Winning the big Wallace Stevens Award for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry is Gary Snyder, while...

Prairie Schooner just posted an interview with Marilyn Chin by their editor, Marianne Kunkel. Here, Chin explains the frequent use of food in her poetry: Historically, food has been a useful...

The last time we had this much peer-to-peer nourishment, it was...uh, 2011. That's right, it's time for the great compiler of Maine Steve Evans's annual ATTENTION SPAN! Rumor has it...

Here are the top five reasons, according to the Indiana Review Editors, why poems get rejected. Ok, we'll give you one of the five. Then, make the jump to read...