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August 29th, 2010 The Chilean art collective, Casagrande, dropped 100,000 bookmarks printed with poems from a helicopter over Berlin on September 28, 2010. The poems were by 80 poets from Chile and Germany, and…

August 28th, 2010 George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and University of California, Santa Cruz, emeritus professor died yesterday at his home in Eugene, OR. Hitchcock founded the literary magazine kayak in 1964 and published…

August 20th, 2010 On August 26, 2010 a new Poet Laureate initiative, Poetry is Public is Poetry, creatively showcases and celebrates the work of Canadian poets. On a series of six…

August 18th, 2010 Poet and translator Ludvik Kundera has died at the age of 90. Kundera, a cousin of Paris-based author Milan Kundera, died Tuesday. He was a co-founder of the surrealistic group…

July 26th, 2010 Peter Campion’s The Lions (Chicago) won the 13th annual Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University for the best first or second book of poetry published in 2009. Campion will…

July 2nd, 2010 The Library of Congress announced that W.S. Merwin will follow Kay Ryan as the 17th Poet Laureate of the United States. The post comes with an annual salary of $35,000. Merwin is the…

June 18th, 2010 The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism has announced that Dick Allen of Trumbull, CT, is Connecticut’s new Poet Laureate. Allen will serve a five year term…

May 19th, 2010 The Wimbledon tennis championship has appointed Matt Harvey as Championships Poet 2010. Harvey is the first such poet and will post new poems each day about the tennis…

May 17th, 2010 Virginia Tech professor and poet Nikki Giovanni announced that she will confer copyright to all her works to Virginia Tech upon her death, making the university the trustee of…

May 6th, 2010 Robert Pinsky and Bruce Springsteen performed together at Fairleigh Dickinson University to a crowd of 400 students, where they also discussed their work, influences and careers and joked about…

April 24th, 2010 A former teacher who founded the Dead Poets Society of America and traveled 15,000 miles to document the graves of poets has a new mission: to create…

April 23rd, 2010 One of Britain’s most distinguished poets, Peter Porter, died on April 23, 2010 at the age of 81. From when he started publishing in the 1960s, he…