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The brand-new Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets--that's Jennifer Benka to you--has graced Sina Queyras's Lemon Hound with some "Poemgraphs." Essentially, Benka has shot some poems. She and...

In further banned books news, City Lights blog points us to the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network. What is the network about? This: AZ Ethnic Studies Network is a statewide network of...

Many thanks to Carina Finn for her tribute to T.S. Eliot on his birthday yesterday. To celebrate, she performed this song and made this video. The title? "The Love Song...

Hot on the heels of the release of Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems & Songs 1949-1993, the final volume in the Allen Ginsberg box set, Open Culture leads us to...

If you're in Ireland on October 4th, then you should go to All Ireland Poetry Day. From the Poetry Ireland Homepage: All-Ireland Poetry Day takes place on Thursday 4 October,...

September 26th wouldn't be complete without wishing T.S. Eliot a happy birthday. To help with the celebration, jump over to the Huffington Post to check out some quotes and photos...

Rumpus reviewer Alex Estes takes on the new translation of Ernst Meister's In Time's Rift, discussing this German poet's thoughts on what it is that comes after life. Miester, who...

In an Independent article posted yesterday, Man Booker Prize judge and Times Literary Supplement editor Sir Peter Stothard complained that criticism has gone downhill in America and England, placing much...

Head on over to Coldfront for this interview with Dobby Gibson. Here he weighs in on the idea of being a "Minneapolis or Minnesota poet": SW: Do you consider yourself a...

In the wake of the Brooklyn Book Festival, The New York Times has made a featurette on small-press publishing, starring a couple of our favorites, Ugly Duckling Presse and Akashic...