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Emily Dickinson, who already has a reputation for being enigmatic, didn't pose for many photos. But amateur sleuth Cynthia Haven presents not one, not two, but three possible photographs of...

The Chicago Tribune, in its "Life Lessons" section, has published a feature on the poet Frederick Seidel, entitled "Frederick Seidel's Sordid Glory." Huh. Michael Robbins leads with shocking news: The clearest...

Football season is upon us. See this article from NFL.com about Chiefs cornerback Eric Berry, who writes poetry and used it to help him cope with an injury that sidelined...

No, Hyacinth Girl Press is not Dancing Girl Press. But they do both publish chapbooks by women, and now they have both been interviewed at Laura Madeline Wiseman. Publisher Margaret...

They just don't stop! This is easily the best part of summer ending/school beginning. Head on over to SPD, where ALL books are 30% off until the tenth. Just enter...

Wow. FIRST, the news that Counterpath Press is publishing the first complete edition of Jackson Mac Low's "Forties" poems, in a book called 154 Forties, edited by Anne Tardos. "The...

Our friends at the Paris Review have entered the lively dialogue on criticism, asking the question, "How free should a critic be?" Writer Caleb Crain brings up the constraints of...

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, poet Christopher Buckley has written a semi-autobiographical essay on his lifelong relationship with Philip Levine, starting with his purchase of They Feed They...

Heather Christle, winner of this Year's Believer Poetry Award, took part in this micro-interview over at their website. They talk, for the most part, about titles. That's a fun angle....

Check it out: an anti-free verse editorial at the Virginia Quarterly Review is sure to start a kerfuffle. William Childress minces no words, calling Allen Ginsberg's work "free verse...