What Was Best About the ‘Best American Poetry’?

Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word ...
WWLP on MSN

National Poetry Day: Famous poets and authors from Massachusetts

National Poetry Day, observed each year in October, serves as a reminder of poetry’s enduring power to stir emotions, spark imagination, and capture human experience in just a few carefully chosen ...

POET Technologies Downgraded To Buy, But Along With A Powerful Options Strategy

POET Technologies made progress in Malaysian production facilities, with a $500K order for optical engines. Check out a bull ...
The Purdue Exponent

'This is my coming out story': Purdue professor and poet Donald Platt publishes book-length poem Tender Voyeur

Our writer interviews Purdue professor Donald Platt on his new book-length poem Tender Voyeur, which explores Platt’s complex journey of embracing his bisexuality.
NPR Illinois

A streetcorner typewriter poet in Bloomington finds power in permanence

In this glued-to-your-phone era of technological isolation from our fellow human beings, one creative person is turning to ...
BMJ

Device-measured physical activity, sedentary time, and risk of all-cause mortality: an individual participant data analysis of four prospective cohort studies

Objectives To examine whether moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) modifies the association between sedentary time and mortality and vice versa, and estimate the joint associations of MVPA ...
The Berkshire Edge

Beyond the Raven . . . The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

Poe’s life was a mix of literary fame and personal tragedy, losing his wife to tuberculosis while fighting the demon of ...