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Hyperallergic's Allison Meier brought to our attention the work of type designer Hermann Zapf. Zapf designed the popular typefaces Palatino and Optima. He died on June 5th and in tribute,...

We'll leave this week on a sad note, upon hearing of the passing of former poet laureate William Jay Smith. Earlier this week the New York Times made note of...

[Editor's Note: As a response to Amy King's recent post "What Is Literary Activism?," Wendy Trevino, Juliana Spahr, Tim Kreiner, Joshua Clover, Chris Chen, and Jasper Bernes have offered the...

This week, CBC Books announced that Adam Sol, Tracy K. Smith, and Alice Oswald have been named the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize judges. The prize, which "offers two awards of...

Claire Donato's book, Burial (Tarpaulin Sky, 2013), is reviewed at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Judson Hamilton gives us a list. Number one? "The time that must have gone into sculpting this...

Earlier in the week, if you recall, Joe Brainard was on our minds. There must be something in the air, as we find more Brainard to send your way today....

Wow: In 2009, poet Heather McHugh was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation fellowship, reports The Daily Kos, "and had no idea what to do with the money." Upon recognizing that...

The New Yorker's Adrienne Raphel introduces the first full-length, English-language collection of Sagawa's poetry, translated by Sawako Nakayasu, to readers: The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books, 2015) (but...

It's no wonder that Ireland's rebellion during the Easter Rising was lead, in part, by poets. As Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald writes, "It was in poetry and in song that the...

In Issue 4.1 of continent, a journal that appears in/with "low frequency" and presents "text, image, video, sound and new forms of publishing online ... as reflections on and challenges...