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At Boston Review, William Harris wonders why Amiri Baraka's writing became so hard to find in print, and his career so different from how it started. He reflects on these...

In 2009, while attempting to woo a music snob, I wrote to Byron Coley and asked him to help me make a mixtape. He responded with a track list called...

Urayoán Noel’s new book, In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam, documents the history of Nuyorican poetry from the 1960s to the 1990s. Although the number of...

Holy cow! O/R Books plans to bring back The Evergreen Review! As O/R Books co-founder, John Oakes, writes: "We plan to make it an online juggernaut--just as it was a...

We are so saddened to hear that Swedish poet and 2011 Nobel Literature laureate Tomas Tranströmer has died at the age of 83. The Independent reports: He had been nominated...

Wow! The ten authors listed as finalists for The Man Booker International Prize include beloved poet Fanny Howe! "Ten writers are on the judges’ list of finalists under serious consideration...

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist & casual historian living in San Francisco. Their first chapbook, PDF, was published by Solar Luxuriance in 2014. With Elana Chavez, they organize the Cantíl...

Abdul Ali reads at Busboys and Poets on May 17th. To prepare Washington D.C. audiences for Ali's reading, Washington City Paper's, Tanya Paperny reviews Abdul Ali's debut book of poems:...

It's that time of year again! Best book event of the year! Year ye year ye! The Seventh Annual NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival is happening from Tuesday, March 31 through Thursday,...

From Garrett Caples at the City Lights blog, we learned the very sad news today of the death of Richard O. Moore at the age of 95. Moore was a...