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Fiction writer and Apogee editor Zinzi Clemmons has solicited a collection of short essays for Literary Hub, reflecting on the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the year since Michael Brown's death, and Apartheid...

When Avies Platt attended a meeting of the Sex Education Society (a group lead by "controversial sexologist" Norman Haire) she became captivated by "tall, somewhat gaunt, aristocratic, very dignified" W.B....

It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me and knows I grew up steeped in the south’s Bible Belt culture of racism that I am compelled to...

Joy Davidman's pursuit of the "famously sensitive, witty writer" ended with her marriage—to C.S. Lewis—at the age of 41. While The Times writes that her life was "dreary and unremarkable"...

For their series Paper Cuts, and the show Personal Science, Clocktower Radio talks with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram about her poetry, prose, photography, and zine activism! Listen here. Discover the creator's history with...

At The New Yorker, Brook Wilensky-Lanford writes about Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, an animated film translation of the worldwide poetry bestseller that premiered this past Friday in New York and...

In his latest article for Jacket 2 Stephen Collis discusses the somewhat vexed relationship between poetry and "the real world." As we mentioned late last year, Collis was served with...

Over the weekend The Independent posted an intriguing article regarding chemical analysis conducted on a series of clay pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden. South African scientists claim to have...

Hyperallergic's Allison Meier reveals that Cambridge University Library "recently added selections from its Chinese collections to its Digital Library Site." Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shi zhu zhai...

At Democracy Now, Japanese Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe talked with Amy Goodman on the 70th anniversary of America dropping the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Author of A Personal...