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Last night, Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate of the United States, gave her inaugural reading at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. If you missed it, Slate posted a nice...

Just a reminder that Joanne Kyger will be reading tonight at the Poetry Foundation. For those of you in Chicago, please stop by. And for our readers elsewhere, Joanne can...

Joyelle McSweeney's newest, Percussion Grenade (Fence 2012), has been reviewed over at the Tarpaulin Sky Press blog, with writer Erin Lyndal Martin noting its ambition: It is comprised of six sections,...

A profoundly sad but profoundly beautiful article by Holocaust survivor Chava Rosenfarb has been posted by Tablet, translated from the original Yiddish. It tells the story of a Jewish man...

We told you about it already, but in case you missed it, here's a reminder about the Academy of American Poets 2012 Poets Forum, via Mark Doty: Dear Friends of Poetry, "Urge...

Check out this wonderful program organized by poet Heather McHugh. From the website: CAREGIFTED was established by poet Heather McHugh to benefit long-term (decade or more) full-time caregivers of severely...

Just as Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has called for the three members of the punk band Pussy Riot to be freed, CUNY's Feminist Press announces what will surely be...

After a summer of gossip and controversy over the firing of the Oxford American's former editor, Marc Smirnoff, the literary magazine has hired Roger D. Hodge as his replacement. The...

FOUND (you know we all troll Missed Connections slash Writing Gigs): Craiglist ad seeking conceptual writer...all right, who did this? Seeking a creative conceptualist writer for a Oulipo type project. If...

From The Guardian: Dominic Hibberd, who has died aged 70, was the world's leading authority on the life and work of Wilfred Owen. In 1973 he became the fourth editor of...