We concluded a month of verse celebrating National Poetry Month with Tony Hoagland's "The Loneliest Job in the World", from Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. Read more...

Twain's last big trip -- and hurrah -- was to Oxford University in the summer of 1907 to receive an Honorary Doctorate, which he esteemed as "the highest honor that has ever fallen to my share of this life's prizes." His final public address before sailing for home was his "Begum of Bengal" speech, now regarded as one of his best. Read more in the second installment of our Twain: Milestones series.

The penultimate poem in our celebration of National Poetry Month is from Nick Lantz's book, We Don't Know We Don't Know, published by Graywolf Press. Read more...

Today's entry in our month-long celebration of National Poetry Month is by Catie Rosemurgy, from her book The Stranger Manual, recently published by Graywolf. Read more...

We continue celebrating National Poetry Month, and Graywolf Press, with verse by the Catalan poet Ernest Farrés, translated by Lawrence Venuti, from the volume Edward Hopper. Read more...

We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with a poem a day from work recently issued by Graywolf. First up is "I As In Justice," by Mary Jo Bang. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from City Lights Books. Today: "The Rage," by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from City Lights Books. Today: "Meeting With My Father In The Orchard," by Homero Aridjis. Read more...

Our feeling for Mark Twain is as his for the Mississippi River — a book that cannot be thrown aside. And if its life-stories are shifting or not now full of their intended wonder, they are also enduring. In this first installment of the B&N “Milestone” series, we will follow the arc of Twain’s life backwards, from his April 21, 1910 death to his November 30, 1835 birth. Seven-and-a-half decades covered on these pages over the next seven-and-a-half months — making the same sort of allowances Twain made when claiming that his birth (twenty days late) and his death (one day late) coincided with the appearance of Haley’s Comet. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from City Lights Books. Today: excerpts from "The Rising of the Ashes," by Tahar Ben Jelloun. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from City Lights Books. Today: "The Sacred Couple" by Homero Aridjis. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from the publisher City Lights Books. First, from Andrew Joron, Trance Archive: New & Selected Poems, "Spine To Spin, Spoke To Speak." Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from the publisher David R. Godine. Today: Wesley McNair's "Waving Goodbye." Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from the publisher David R. Godine. Today: D. H. Lawrence's "Bare Almond Trees." Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from the publisher David R. Godine. Today: "The Beginning," by Linda Bamber. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from the publisher David R. Godine. Today: "Spring Songs," by Rainer Maria Rilke. Read more...

We celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from the publisher David R. Godine. First up: Andrew Motion's "All Possibilities." Read more...

Coffee House Press helps us celebrate National Poetry Month. Read Ange Mlinko's "Treatment." Read more...

Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Greg Hewett's "What the Stars Will Bring." Read more...

Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Mark McMorris's "Letters to Micheal." Read more...

Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Lightsey Darst 's "Billboard." Read more...

Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Ange Mlinko's "Corporate Abstraction." Read more...