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Photo by Nathaniel A. Siegel "Although I feel I am a poet, please don’t introduce me as a poet." We're sorry, Bill: Last week, we heard through friends that the...

Electric Lit and Jezebel both report that Patti Smith's best-selling memoir, Just Kids, is to be adapted by Showtime into a television miniseries! From Jezebel: Just Kids, Patti Smith’s National Book...

Q: What happens when translation meets erasure? A: Peter Manson's English in Mallarmé. Manson's no stranger to Stéphane Mallarmé, having translated the French Symbolist master's Poésies (Poems in Verse) back...

At Fanzine, Gina Myers takes a look into Morgan Parker's debut collection Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback 2015) and likes what she finds. Myers is...

Translator of Tristan Tzara and a poet inspired by painters, Lee Harwood has died at the age of 76. To learn more about his life and career, The Guardian brings...

Step inside Queen Mobs's "Poets Online Talking About Coffee" series and wake up to the sound of Rob McLennan and Russell Bennetts talking about essays, publishing, and, of course: coffee!...

Consider the Dakota 38 while reading the work of Layli Long Soldier in the premiere issue of Mud City, "an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the...

He's at it again! The New York Times shares an eight-minute video of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (which originated at the website of City Lights Bookstore) in which Ferlinghetti reads “Tentative...

Today we are reading and re-reading Lament for the Dead, "an online community poetry project which will mark the death of every person killed by police this summer, and every...

Elizabeth Metzger of the Boston Review has seen Mary Jo Bang's The Last Two Seconds and the future looks grim. Metzger writes: "Her seventh collection of poems, The Last Two...