Later this month, HarperCollins will publish reporter and humorist Hart Seely’s Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, a book of poems crafted from interviews, speeches, and tweets… Read more »

Last month, despite apparent reservations, The Orwell Society decided to publish a slim volume of 42 little-known poems written by George Orwell. The poems were written over a 35-year span, from… Read more »

 If winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and being a finalist for the very same award for criticism didn’t convince you that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric… Read more »

For millennia, the multifarious language of man was ours and ours alone and we were (generally) given to understand that the robot (and before that, golums and minotaurs) world communicated… Read more »

Last week it was Shakespeare. This week it’s the turn of a more modern poet, Philip Larkin, to be the subject of a grand but ultimately false discovery. On Monday,… Read more »

Two years ago, my colleague Zeljka Marosevic wrote a post about British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s decision not to write a poem on the occasion of the birth of… Read more »

Here we are only a few weeks into 2015, and yet we’ve encountered enough stories of publishers unwilling to offend their potential audiences to last us through the end of… Read more »

Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky is teaching an eight-week MOOC (massive open online course) through Boston University and EdX this fall, and more than twelve thousand students have… Read more »

Governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory is in deep trouble with the state’s literary community this week, after picking a self-published writer as the poet laureate, especially since he made… Read more »

Jeremy Paxman, has turned away from politicians—at least momentarily—to fight the good fight against those who are truly self-interested, slimy and hypocritical: poets. Paxman recently chaired the judging panel of the… Read more »