“The connections made with Dante are extremely varied, as if his celebrated universality has made it possible for poets to engage his work on many levels and often on utterly divergent terms,” they ...

Poets are not the world's most visible celebrities. But an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., puts faces to verse, and... For Modern American Poets, A 'Likeness' Could ...

This performance reading will explore our troubling world through the lens of poetic bilingualism. Led by Myung Mi Kim, Yang Lian, and Lynn Xu, each reading will introduce contemporary poetry and Asia ...

To judge from outward appearances, one might imagine that poetry occupies a place of unprecedented importance, at least in America. There are now more poets writing here than there have ever been — ...

Michigan is known for its Poets on Poetry series, which collects the prose statements, interviews and poetry-related ephemera of individual contemporary poets; this anthology of frank interviews fits ...