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Elisa Gabbert, over at Lemon Hound, offers her theory on what, exactly, the most basic unit of poetry is. She begins: What is the unit of poetry? If the basic unit...

For those of you who like both Ralph Waldo Emerson and New York, and happen to be in New York, natch, you should check out Regina Rex Gallery's presentation of...

Check out this interview Leah Umansky conducted with Victoria Redel over at The The Poetry. Here's a taste, in which Redel discussed sentimentality and the state of poetry in the digital...

Be sure to check out the audio recording of Mary Jo Bang reading H.D.'s "Helen," at Slate. Bang also provides an introduction to the poem, discussing the different implications of...

Photo by Alan Bernheimer. Over at Take Down the Clouds, Dana Ward gives a series of spirited answers to a handful of questions, as per the format. We love the answer...

Keeping up with all things Duncan, we take a look at Ange Mlinko's article on Robert Duncan at The Nation. Mlinko begins by describing the peculiar gaze Duncan developed after...

Many thanks to Poetry Daily for posting Michael Davidson's foreword to Lisa Jarnot's much anticipated biography of Robert Duncan. Here's a taste of the first paragraph—be sure to jump over...

This week we're offering some choice gems newly added to our online archive. In the news, we've been hearing a good deal about a renaissance of sorts in Canadian poetry....

The Guardian offers up this review of John Fowles's Selected Poems: Fowles is not the first dead writer to have his unpublished material put on public show. Accordingly, Thorpe's introduction comprises...

Check out this Scientific American blog post by Bob Grumman. In it, Grumman takes a deeper look at mathematics in poetry, focusing primarily on Louis Zukofsky's use of an integral...