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From the Daily Hampshire Gazette: The owner of a century-old barn at 290 Lincoln Ave., next to a home Robert Frost visited periodically during his time in Amherst, will be...

Christine Meilicke writes for Jerome Rothenberg's Poems and Poetics about the severely unknown poet Rose Drachler, who began to write and publish in her fifties and sixties: "Her first publisher...

Poetry may seem an anachronistic pursuit, but only to those out of the know. Even at age 100, we still keep our ear on the pulse and our finger to...

Over at The Rumpus, Spenser Davis reviews Dorothea Lasky's new collection Thunderbird. Here he talks about a particular favorite, and it's "biting commentary." Oh, an Frankenstein movies: Again, some of the...

For those of you keeping up with the New York Public Library's millions-dollar overhaul, this just in from The New York Times: Responding to objections raised by scholars, writers, artists and...

On this week’s contemporary best-seller list, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey again reigns supreme with her latest collection, Thrall. Sharon Olds’s Stag’s Leap (in paperback) jumps one spot from last week...

The city of Los Angeles is currently taking nominations for a poet laureate, which has rankled some of the city's more conservative citizens, who think paying for poetry isn't a...

This is for you Lewis Warsh fans, and all others interested in the extended New York School; or, let's face it, poetry. First! Cuneiform Press has announced the publication of...

Homer aficianados love to split hairs over different translations of their favorite war epic, The Iliad. Some argue the Loeb translation is the truest, some prefer the Lattimore, others retort...

There are some of you to whom in other lives we'd like to read 124 dreams of Georges Perec. Alas and good, you may read them yourselfves. The Melville House...