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Los Angeles Review of Books presents this thoughtful piece by Lytton Smith about the fluidity of poetic forms and the recent anthology Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms,...

The Kenyon Review blog has published an interview with Mary Ruefle--conducted over mail! Interlocuter Andrew David King also wrote an introduction for the conversation a week or so ago, in...

Hear tell is LOADING, from Jonathan Allen and Anselm Berrigan! As we've been told, the collaborative project "[LOADING is] essentially taking that notion--stolen from the message we all see on...

Blake Butler reviewed Danielle Collobert's Murder (Litmus Press) for VICE...some other good'uns there too, incl. Throne of Blood by Cassandra Troyan (Solar Luxuriance Press), Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998-2007 by Aaron...

A Columbia Univesity MFA student recently posted a hilarious list on The Hairpin called, "Opening Lines of Emily Dickinson Poems Not to Be Used as Pickup Lines." The list includes...

In my first four posts I’ve talked quite a bit about ambience and “ambient violence,” a term I took from Joyelle McSweeney. While “ambient music” is usually associated with “background...

On City Lights's blog, Garrett Caples writes about the process of editing The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia. Caples edited the collected along with Andrew Joron and Nancy Joyce Peters;...

...be choosers? Oh no wait, sorry wrong punch-line. In fact, as a recent article in the New York Times reveals, there are numerous ways that one can conceal one's true[-ish]...

Coldfront writer Mark Gurarie reviews The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather (Birds LLC 2013), by, well, Sampson Starkweather. The book has already gotten plump backing (ow) from HTMLGIANT and...

Slate recently noted a scene from Orange Is the New Black that had every poetry and Robert Frost fan smiling: In “Blood Donut,” the seventh episode of Orange Is the New...