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At The Knight Blog (the blog of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation): "A rich library of African-American poetry goes digital"! Turns out that a Knight Arts Challenge...

The BBC reports that Irish poet, Michael Longley, has been granted "freedom of Belfast." Longley's influences include William Butler Yeats, Wilfred Owen, and D.H. Lawrence. His poems frequently address the...

  Raúl Zurita's "La vida nueva," written in the sky above New York on June 2, 1982.   This interview took place on Sunday, April 13, 2014 in the lobby of the Washington...

The Guardian brought to light Claerwen James's recollections of her father, the poet Clive James. Claerwen's recollections are of an isolated childhood, without her father. She is an artist, the...

Poet and activist Mark Nowak is interviewed at Split This Rock! Talk about a good perception of the poetry workshop. In response to a question about the role of dialogue...

Howard Guttenplan directed the Millennium Film Workshop from 1971 to 2011. It emerged from the same initiative, a federal anti-poverty program, that helped create The Poetry Project at St. Mark's...

While hunting down the poems for D. Scot Miller's playlist, I remembered that we were housemates for a brief period in 2008. Along with Doug (as I know D. Scot),...

In her review of Starry Messengers: Signs and Science from the Skies (now on view at Harvard University's Houghton Library until May 2), Allison Meier approaches celestial events through the...

Robin Tremblay-McGaw continues her turn as the best field reporter in the Bay Area, with this blog post on X Poetics about the March 1 meeting of feminist minds, co-sponsored...

Attention all "carless Angelenos"! This Sunday, Harold Abramowitz and Amanda Ackerman have quite a reading for you, to take place during this year's CicLAvia ("an experience, not a race"). At...