Great news for Elizabeth Alexander & Lucille Clifton fans! At this year's Poets Forum, Elizabeth Alexander will deliver the Blaney Lecture, "Reconsidering Lucille Clifton," on Friday, Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m. at The New School. She'll be replacing Jorie Graham at this event.

 

 

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We recently asked upcoming Poets Forum panelists six essential questions, including "How do you know when you've finished writing a poem?"

Check out all of their answers: Mary Jo Bang, Mark Bibbins, Timothy Donnelly, Randall Mann, Ben Mirov, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

 

Check out an early draft of John Ashbery's famous poem, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and a rare photograph of Ashbery in Rome, in 1963.

 

John Ashbery will choose the winning manuscript for this year's Walt Whitman Award, given to an American poet who has never before published a book of poetry.