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Now it's not just John Beer, or The Drunk Sonnets, but rather, poems ABOUT beer. As L.A. Weekly reports, a new book by Sam Wagner boasts the first-ever collection of...

Although the (mostly) digital literary journal, Triple Canopy, is relatively new (publishing since 2007) compared to many of the archives housed at Fales, the N.Y.U. library has started the process...

In his trusty van, "Dedgar The Poemobile," Dead Poets Society of America Founder, Walter Skold, has been traversing the country for six years, documenting the final resting places of American...

I’d like to note a peculiar absence in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most basic and influential piece of employment-related legislation in the United States,...

Congratulations to Bentley School (Lafayette, CA) student, Tova Ricardo, who is the honorary Youth Poet Laureate for Oakland, California. Ricardo was selected after a reading at Pro-Arts Gallery on July...

Poet, artist, and editor Emmalea Russo reviews Sophie Calle's Suite Vénitienne (Siglio Press 2015) for Art Critical, and in so doing, reflects on the act of following: its tangential desires,...

At Guernica, writer Paul Stephens considers information overload and its eventual attention: "[t]here are 2.5 million stars in my pocket .... I have nearly unlimited access to music; I can...

Who knew?! At Wall Street Journal, Gregory Pardlo, author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning collection, Digest, delves into his childhood in Willingboro, NJ and his ongoing attachment to the music...

At J Weekly, the poet laureate of Emeryville, California (Sarah Kobrinsky) speaks about her Orthodox childhood, her favorite authors, and her unexpected, very Bay-Area rent increase. Kobrinsky's life in Emeryville...

For those of you who speak Lisa Robertson and like German, here's our rough internet-translate of a talk description at the Berlin Literaturwerkstatt recently: "In a conflict between form, body...