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Published on 05/24/2013

There is no “June Swoon” for Seattle poetry events. The next few weeks bring a diverse selection of…

Published on 04/04/2011

by Allen Ginsberg Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2007 Reviewed by Mike Corkery “Spirit shrunken in a bounded / Immortality.” As…

Published on 02/27/2011

James Franco, who will co-host the Oscars tonight with Anne Hathaway, recently talked poetry with Travis Nichols over…

Published on 01/23/2011

James Franco seems committed to keeping poetry in the public eye. The 32-year old actor, who played Allen…

Published on 01/18/2011

As e-readers proliferate, poetry publishers try to keep poems looking like poems by Rachel Mennies Since the widespread…

Published on 01/22/2010

The LA Times has given a warm review to “Howl,” a “challenging, impressionistic biopic-cum-courtroom drama” about Allen Ginsberg, his classic…

RIP Bill Knott, 1940-2014

The profoundly original and inarguably important poet Bill Knott died Wednesday, March 12 after complications with surgery. Here we offer a good look back his classic, ‘The Naomi Poems’; poets’ tweets of grief and remembrance; and more.
VisPo Supplement 1

The Vispo Supplement: a weekly feature of visual poetry and related work from around the globe, edited by Nico Vassilakis.
Kathleen Rooney on Poetry Post-Rumsfeld

The U.S. invaded Iraq 11 years ago this week. Kathleen Rooney recalls our “unknown unknowns.”