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While we were snoozing, over at the Rumpus Brandi Homan was hitting the beat and getting the story on Stacy Szymaszek's latest book from Fence, Journal of Ugly Sites &...

Poet Maggie Nelson recounts her first encounter with Prince. The pop star, who died this year, was an early inspiration. Nelson writes: "Was I sexual at ten? I don’t know....

When the actress Marlene Dietrich passed away, Peter and Maria Riva (her children) donated a fraction of her library to the Film Museum in Berlin and the American Library in...

Elizabeth Lund of the Washington Post jumps from the latest by C.K. Williams to Günter Grass in her year-end synopsis of worthy reads. Both collections tackle death as their subject...

As the New Yorker's Dan Chiasson attests, this year has not been great. Who knows what the grim future holds? "These days, it’s a morning highlight when I find a...

Jim Jarmusch is, in particular, a fan of the New York School poets Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery. However, his newest film, Paterson, traces the development of a character modeled...

David Orr has picked his favorite books of poetry from 2016 for the New York Times. "Here are 10 poetry collections published in 2016 that do the art form proud,...

The recent Bakersfield Fan Forum, for which "poets, artists and scholars discussed the politics of fandom, appropriation and the concepts of the amateur and the enthusiast," was "cultivated" by Poetic...

Netflix is working on the second screen adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). With his excess per diem funds from travel, reports the...

Most recently the author of Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016), selected by Tracy K. Smith as a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, Melissa Range speaks with Harvard Professor of...