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...is the title of Sophia Le Fraga's new chapbook, and Melissa Broder provides a fab review of said book over at HTMLGiant. She begins her review with a description/warning which...

Oh, here's some great news from Random House about Red Doc>, Anne Carson's follow-up to Autobiography of Red: A literary event: a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed poetry best seller Autobiography...

We are terribly saddened by this sudden news of the passing of Russian poet, writer, translator, and lecturer Arkadii Dragomoshchenko—a great loss for poetry. For now, Charles Bernstein has written...

A beautifully aged copy of Lord Byron's Frankenstein, which contains an inscription from Mary Shelley, has been discovered and is now up for auction. AbeBooks has the scoop, including the...

See this article in The Guardian about Sir Andrew Motion and his appeal to "expedite proposed extensions to the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks, so that they join...

Sarah Stodola interviews Ginsberg's former assistant (now biographer) Steve Finbow at The Awl. Finbow's biography, Allen Ginsberg, comes out this week. For a little taste of the interview, here's Finbow...

A new biography of the British poet Frank Thompson is reviewed in the latest issue of The Economist, detailing the life of a man who, like many others, wrote poems...

From the Library of Congress: Natasha Trethewey, a poet-historian who gives voice to the forgotten with clarity and beauty, will give her inaugural reading as the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant to...

First he tells us about the worst hangover, ever. Now, check out this post at Letters of Note featuring some "choice" words from Mr. Bukowski. The post begins: When, in September...

"On May 24 1945, distinguished U.S. poet Ezra Loomis Pound found himself locked in a special cell – a cage, really – in the United States Army Disciplinary Training Center...