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A worldwide poetry competition is open to entries for the eighth year running, as part of a city's literature festival.

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Isabella Dail, head editor of The Prospect and staff writer for News, interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon about his ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.

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Instead of digging into politics, e.t.c. revue draws laughs from an evil ventriloquist dummy and a kid DJ with a dancing dad.

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