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----------------- "you are making a scene. you are scared to stand up for your beliefs. you are not a prince, nor were meant to be! you are a minor character, one...

“Jamie Allan was a Northumbrian piper, a border gypsy, born 1734 in Rothbury and who died in the Durham Lock Up in 1810 where he was serving a life sentence...

Last week I finally started reading, or reading through-- no one intended that they be read at a sitting!-- the new 800-page edition of the Notebooks of Robert Frost, ably...

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1996, the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska quickly claimed a slot on the one shelf I reserve for my special books. I keep...

I haven't been linking much here to Silliman's blog, because regular readers of this site likely know about it already and because if I tried to respond to every substantial...

Simon Morris at Information as Material has just released a DVD entitled "Sucking on Words"—a documentary film that introduces viewers to the career of Kenneth Goldsmith (a provocative contributor to...

From today's reading: Maram Al-Massri's A Red Cherry on a White Tile Floor, Khaled Mattawa's brisk translation from Arabic of a Syrian poet living in France-- her first US publication, but...

Thanks to everyone for their comments in response to my post about sexism in the avant-garde (all very much appreciated). Ange Mlinko has gone on to suggest that the avant-garde...

We can all rest easy now. A judge ruled on what makes a poem. In a twist that Alicia will appreciate, the plaintiff apparently argued that a poem in rhyming couplets...

Like Stephen Burt, I too have been away at a venue, performing poetry at Yale University over the weekend, and I have arrived as a latecomer to the controversy about...