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Hello, it's here! The sixth issue of Music & Literature is (at last!) in the world, with highlights including poetry by Argentinian writer, Alejandra Pizarnik with an appreciation of her work...

Hint: it is NOT Andrew Motion. In fact, it is Melissa Broder, who has been wo-manning the popular Twitter handle since 2012. As Rolling Stone writes, the un-masking is due,...

For those of you keeping up with the current debate around Vanessa Place's conceptual project, @VanessaPlace, do check out the LA Times on the AWP aspect. 1) "Interestingly, AWP didn’t...

At PBS News Hour, St. Louis-based poet Ted Mathys "contemplates fatherhood in a hotel room" (or at least, this featured poem does!). Mathys's third book, Null Set (Coffee House Press...

Well, if you're Sir Andrew Motion, you move to the US and become professor of the arts at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. That's one way, as reported by BBC...

This just in from CBS Baltimore: the Enoch Pratt Free Library has received a generous $25,000 grant from PNC Foundation for providing struggling Baltimore residents with a steadfast launch-pad during...

Adrienne Rich, who would have celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday this past Saturday, remains the only artist to refuse this honor. As Brainpickings explains, the National Medal of the Arts is...

We've all had our bum gigs, so I'm sure you can relate to Jamaal May when he wonders: "I don’t know // if it’s better to be good at a...

The Guardian reports that the British Library will host the first conference of its kind on the topic of book theft (entitled "The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril") after...