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PEN 2013: The "African Writer"

May 07, 2013 |

PEN 2013: Critical Cold Wars

May 03, 2013 |

Chinese sci-fi, poetry events calendar, and poets with their cats

May 03, 2013 |

PEN 2013: Bravery and Atrocity

April 30, 2013 |

Shel Silverstein: Five Things You Might Not Know About the Famous Children’s Poet

April 30, 2013 |

Ben Myers

Poetry with “Something at Stake”: Benjamin Myers on Past and Present

April 29, 2013 |

The Best Young British Novelists, E.L. Konigsburg, and endangered sounds

April 26, 2013 |

Poetry on Screen: Five Films Inspired by Poetry

April 24, 2013 |

Four Female Poets You Should Know

April 22, 2013 |

The Pulitzer Prize, Girl Rising in theaters, and Poetry Madness brackets

April 19, 2013 |

Tomorrow Is Poem in Your Pocket Day

April 17, 2013 |

Outside Your Window: First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies

5 Poets Your Children Should Know

April 15, 2013 |

Updates from the 2013 Puterbaugh Festival

April 12, 2013 |

Nelson Mandela

Leaders of Political Change: 10 Recent Nonfiction Books

April 10, 2013 |

Karla Gruodis

Interviews, On Translation

Straddling Poetic and Philosophical Discourse

April 09, 2013 |

Eric Whitacre Ted Talk

News and Events

“P” is for Poetry, Puterbaugh, and Octavio Paz

April 05, 2013 |

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