Navigating the Whale of Amherst December 22, 2010: Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland first began working on Sea and Spar Between a year ago, expecting that their poetry generator would take only a few days to complete. Now published on Dear Navigator a year later, Sea and Spar Between "defines a space of language populated by a number of stanzas comparable to the number of fish in the sea, [...] by Harriet Staff

Train of Tears December 22, 2010: The New York Times blog continues its coverage of the end of Train of Thought, the subway placard series which prominently displayed literary quotations between ads for accident lawyers and laser acne removal. Today they've published a few comments from readers and subway-goers who are sad to see the series go, such as this from college student [...] by Harriet Staff

Dickinson outted as “wild” heterosexual June 24, 2010: Poet, novelist, and literary critic Daniela Gioseffi claims in her "biographical novel" that Emily Dickinson's famous "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" was written about "a man by the name of William Smith Clark, a botanist and geologist." Via the Brooklyn Heights Blog. The result of Gioseffi’s research is a “biographical novel” about Dickinson, [...] by Harriet Staff

Don’t Wax the Poem April 1, 2010: Maybe all poets are nerds or they wouldn’t be poets. But not all poets write nerdy. Some are suave, which can be a good thing. Some are elegant in an elegant way. Nerds can be elegant in a backwards way, by retaining their bumps and inelegances, bumptious idiosyncrasies, a being-in-life at least as much as in-literature. There’s plenty to [...] by Daisy Fried