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At The Stranger, the broadsides of Seattle poet Mary Anne Carter are given their due--as in, apparently they do much more than illustrate poems: ...Broadsides almost always broadcast a reverence for...

Joe Brainard has been on our mind recently, ever since we sent these dazzling poems live in our archive. But really dear reader when is Joe Brainard NOT on your...

For the newest installment in its on-going, monthly series of poetry reviews, The Washington Post calls attention to new collections by Juan Felipe Herrera, Major Jackson, and Tony Hoagland. The...

Rebecca Wolff's new collection of poetry, One Morning--, is out from Wave Books, and has just received a review in Publisher's Weekly that we must point you to: "Not quite...

Attention teachers, who are also poetry-lovers! This September, the Academy of American Poets is launching "Teach This Poem." The new initiative is an on-going, daily, subscription-based series modeled after the...

In March, Hoa Nguyen moderated a three-part conversation about "policing in the literary world" for VIDA; the third installment has just gone up. Carmen Giménez Smith notes that "Hoa sent...

In case you have been wondering what would happen if Sylvia Plath and Frida Kahlo got together and smoked a joint, Musas, a new play that takes the stage at...

This past summer, I was asked to talk about my literary activism as part of an acceptance speech for an award I was receiving. This request threw my current actions...

Although Douglas Messerli and Bernadette Mayer are very close in age, Messerli recalls his surprise when he first encountered her poems. She wrote with a connection to Gertrude Stein, but...

Introducing The Scofield, a new literary journal created in the spirit of the lettuce-leaf modernidays of The Dial. Hmm? Each issue of the 1920s version of The Dial seemed to have...