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At The Huffington Post, poet, comedian, and current Columbia MFA student Max Ritvo interviews his professor Dorothea Lasky. What's special here is the peek at their text messages: "A month...

Comedienne, Kate Clinton hosted the 27th annual Lambda Literary Awards this year at The Great Hall at Cooper Union. The awards, also sometimes referred to as "The Lammy's" celebrate excellence...

Worker Writers is an institute founded by acclaimed poet and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Mark Nowak, whose primary mission is to "create a space for participants to re-imagine their working lives,...

We always want to keep you wise to what's wise. In that regard, please hail the coming of Lost & Found Series V! The CUNY Center for the Humanities has...

As you might expect, Danez Smith absolutely brings it with his new poem "Tonight, in Oakland" on PoetryNow. The poem begins: I did not come here to sing a blues. Lately, I...

Jeremy Glazier writes that "[t]he latest iteration of Mallarmé’s masterpiece, from Wave Books, is a stunning presentation of the poem in French with a new English translation by Robert Bononno...

Who's it going to be, Simon Armitage, Ian Gregson, Seán Haldane, Wole Soyinka, or A.E. Stallings, as we come down to the wire for the nomination for the Oxford Professor...

Two recent books, Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life (2012) and Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (2014), dwell on the most discreet artifacts of...

To be a black man in the United States of America is to be in a constant state of war and I am tired, I’m just so tired of the...

Seriously? Seriously. South Windsor Connecticut School District recently forced longtime, award-winning teacher, David Olio, to resign after discussing Allen Ginsberg's poem "Please Master" with students. Ginsberg's poem ruminates on dominance...