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Head on over to the Octopus Books website for a book trailer for Ben Mirov's forthcoming Hider Roser. While you're there, if you still haven't purchased Heather Christle's The Trees...

Joshua Weiner, at the Los Angeles Review of Books, has just published an essay on Charles Bernstein's Attack of the Difficult Poems, noting that its title, but acourse, is "[poking]...

Poet Henri Cole is blogging from Paris for The New Yorker's Page Turner. Noting that he's renamed his rue the Street of the Iron Poet, Cole considers being a first-generation...

Irish writer and current Berliner Julian Gough has penned some verse for presidential candidate Mitt Romney, saying on his blog: I was fascinated by Mitt Romney's honest and thoughtful words in...

Sometimes you do govern in poetry! From the Daily Herald: In his free time - you might ask just how much he has these days - Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin tells...

From the Independent.ie: HE is probably better versed in berating world leaders for not doing enough to help find more solutions to world hunger and poverty. But global campaigner Bob Geldof cast...

Oh, we are so excited. Publishers Weekly has taken a liking to Catherine Wagner's newest book, Nervous Device, which is out in October from City Lights Spotlight series, edited by...

When there is war and struggle, poets raise their voices. Al Jazeera has posted six video profiles of contemporary Middle Eastern poets, including Al Khadra, an Algerian poet who write...

Photo by Julia Cohen. Yesterday, we were sorry to hear of the passing of poet and translator Malinda Markham from the Freedom in Harmony blog: The sad news arrived today that award-winning...

Check out this great project from Michael Zapruder, brought to you by the folks at Black Ocean. From their website: With contributions from 23 poets, 3 engineers, and over 30 musicians,...