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Los Angeles art and poetry aficionados have a unique opportunity to view Gertrude Stein's poetry reimagined as advertising billboards. Eve Fowler has been working with Stein's poetry for the last...

At NPR, Roxane Gay remarks on the all-white summer reading list the New York Times just published: It's one thing if a media brand deliberately targets segmented audiences. The Root...

JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES, 2012, Kehinde Wiley (kehindewiley.com) “I ask you, O! Americans!” David Walker calls to his audience in his 1829 Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble to...

At Columbia Poetry Review, an interview with David Trinidad, who talks with CPR editorial board member Kyle Ballou! At the end of our excerpt is some startling honesty, but definitely...

Paris Review has launched a new video series, it's "My First Time:" interviews with authors about their first books. From Jacket Copy: [...] Since its first issue in 1953, the...

Not just ANY uncorrected proof: the 1962 document reveals that Plath made roughly 70 corrections to The Bell Jar prior to publication. It also bears her pseudonym, "Victoria Lucas," which...

Need an update on the Oxford poetry chair? Sure you do. "Candidates for one of the most prestigious posts in poetry are embroiled in a war of words as Nobel...

The 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund has announced this year's winners! "The Fund received a record number of applications this year—226 total—spanning a wide array of languages of origin, genres, and...

Photo by Joseph Massey From the Office of Paranormal Activity in the basement of the MoMA, CAConrad's new poem "Slaves of Hope Live Only For Tomorrow" comes to you via...

Yesterday we were saddened to hear the news of Kenneth Warren's death at the age of 63. Jim O'Bryan at the Lakewood Observer writes: This morning one of the best humans...