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Move over, Donald Allen! Juan Felipe Herrera just hit England! From The Guardian: “It’s a good thing, you know, it’s a good thing,” Juan Felipe Herrera told me on the...

for Michelle Tea “Who we are when we are not love has always caused us shame.” --Akilah Oliver “Touch me. / We’ll become less one.” --TC Tolbert “Nobody wants to become nobody.” --Trish Salah Someone asked me...

Although he quit writing poetry two years ago, citing a connection between poetry's sensuality and his octogenarian age, Donald Hall did manage to speak rather candidly with the New Hampshire...

Have you seen Dara Wier's Inside/Undivided series? Flying Object describes it as "a series of fragments & notes about Chance, Fate, Context & Intention." For installment 30, Wier writes about...

MobyLives writes about Cynthia Hurd, one of the victims of Wednesday night's shooting in Charleston. Hurd was a prominent librarian who dedicated her life to books and to educating others....

The Voice's portrait of Monet starts at #SayHerName, an African American Policy Forum event in NYC where Monet performed a poem about the death of an African American girl during...

For Letras Latinas's new installment, "Nefelibata: Interviews with Latina Writers," curated by ire’ne lara silva, silva joins Sarah A. Chavez in a conversation about her new Dancing Girl Press collection...

Obscure discovery! "Canadian punk rock band Propagandhi once quoted Karen Brodine's poem 'Journal Entries' from her book Illegal Assembly [(Hanging Loose Press 1980)] in a song from their 1995 split...

At Weird Sister, Megan Milks interviews Daviel Shy, a Chicago filmmaker who is adapting Djuna Barnes's roman à clef, Ladies Almanack, into a feature-length experimental film. First! Check out this...

Photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald. Mark Strand's literary executor, Mary Jo Salter, discovered the handwritten essay in Strand's notebook: a review of an exhibition of Edward Hopper's drawings at the Whitney...