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Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape) by Tan Lin (yep, that is the real title) is rife...

Epic poetry and 3-D aerial warfare? It's a mash-up waiting to happen. Alex Proyas (The Crow, I Robot) has signed on to direct a version of John Milton's Paradise Lost,...

This is quite possibly the prettiest thing to hit purgatory in ages. Artist and illustrator Seymour Chwast has taken Dante's Divine Comedy and morphed it into an eye-popping graphic novel....

The Critical Flame, a journal of criticism, presents smart new reviews of Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path, Charles Bernstein's All the Whiskey in Heaven, and Paul Killebrew's Flowers. James Stotts provides...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which kicked of yesterday, here's a glimpse at a few events featuring the work of Latino poets. Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute...

The Passion Task blog analyzes Michael Robbins's analysis of Robert Hass in the September issue of Poetry. Robbins's was a funny, lacerating review (if you haven't yet read it, click...

The Australian reports on the discovery of an unpublished Ted Hughes poem among the writer's letters. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the newspaper cannot provide the poem's text. But it can...

Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers makes its first appearance on the contemporary best seller list this week at number 7. That is a remarkable debut for a first...

Howl the movie is making headlines this morning, and according to this Newsweek review—and this Ron Silliman post— it has everything to do with Howl the poem. The crux...

If reading poems about love is awesome and actually being in love is even better, then what could top receiving poems about love from you beloved?  Nothing, suggests dating blogger...