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Ever wondered who is behind the heavenly system that fulfills your small press dreams and desires? Why that's Brent Cunningham, Laura Moriarty, John Sakkis, Johnny Hernandez, Nicole Trigg, and all...

At The Rumpus, Patrick James Dunagan observes the fabulous universe of talent that is ("stellar," as he puts it) Elizabeth Willis's New and Selected. Willis's volume is a recent publication...

Our medium of choice might be language, for the most part, but we can't deny the power of a million+ images now in the public domain. Open Culture points us...

In light of an excerpt from Garments Against Women (Ahsahta, 2015) having been published today at Bookforum, we'd like to also point to a nuanced review of Anne Boyer's most...

Poems in the air? For his latest post at Jacket 2, Jerome Rothenberg discusses American Sign Language and its relationship to poetry. Can American Sign Language be a medium for...

Take a cool, breezy tour through the latest Tibor de Nagy exhibition, consisting of collages by John Ashbery and Guy Maddin, with your guide Todd Colby. Over at Fanzine, Colby...

Rigoberto González considers the "mid-career poet," defined loosely: "The expectation is that four published poetry books provides enough material to establish a reputation, a trajectory, and a sense of a...

Lisbon-born filmmaker Pedro Costa is interviewed at Film Comment, and he talks largely of Gil Scott-Heron, with whom Costa was set to work on his new film Horse Money. A...

At Open House, editor Housten Donham interviews Fred Moten. They discuss The Feel Trio, visual and spatial models, sound and music, Moten's early influences, being poetry, and more. An excerpt: [Housten...

In other exhumation news... Turns out the remains of W.B. Yeats may not (wholly?) be those interred in the shadow of Ben Bulben in Co Sligo. The Guardian reports on...