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Academy of American Poets to Cosponsor Mark Strand Memorial Event in New York City The Academy of American Poets is pleased to share that we

Rare and used bookseller AbeBooks.com has listed its fifty most expensive book sales of the year. A first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to

Long-lost letter that inspired Kerouac’s On the Road to go up for auction It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre – 16,000

Wandering Hermit seeking chapbook length submissions Wandering Hermit Press is now open for contest submissions of chapbook length poetry, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. You will

CHARLOTTESVILLE – U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright says poetry has been the pivot around which his life has turned for 50 years. The 79-year-old retired

A century ago Russian forces were beginning the 133-day siege of Przemy?l and the German army took Péronne. Meanwhile, in a Nottinghamshire farmhouse, a young

A previously unpublished chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory A previously unpublished chapter of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, originally deemed “too

On Joyce and Syphilis New evidence of the author’s suffering, and reflections on the scholarly debate n 1917, while walking down a street in Zurich,

Jack White’s Third Man Records launches publishing wing Jack White’s Third Man Records is expanding: the label will officially launch its new publishing wing next

Beginning July 15th Button Poetry is holding an open call for chapbook submissions. There is a $15 entry fee. The highs and lows of waiting