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The National Book Critics Circle Award winners were announced at a ceremony in New York last night; and to our delight, Claudia Rankine has won the poetry award for Citizen,...

We can't recommend enough tonight's event at NYU: Terrence Hayes will deliver his Bagley Wright Lecture entitled "Three Acts of Love: ‘As You Leave Me,’ ‘Upon Your Leaving,’ and ‘Feeling...

On the heels of a nomination for the 2014 AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Award, a video surfaced yesterday featuring the editors of New York School Painters and Poets:...

Today, Sandra Simonds has a new poem up at Berfrois, "Confessions," and she's also interviewed at Queen Mobs Teahouse, which includes the poet in a feature cutely ringing off the...

At Jacket2, Al Filreis drops knowledge about Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In this recent post, he includes both a blurb about the baroness (written for Irene Gammel's biography) and links...

As we mentioned last week, a new literary magazine, The Offing, will launch in Los Angeles. We're now happy to offer, via Jacket Copy, a quite useful sneak preview, plus...

This week Jacket2 and PennSound are rolling some serious Gertrude Stein, with new audio recordings and celebrations of her work. We'll lead off with this roundup of microreviews of Tender...

Alexis Pope reviews Krystal Languell's Be a Dead Girl (Argos Books 2014) for Entropy. Pope is trying to eat a yogurt, from what we can figure. She also makes some...

At The Guardian, author Tom McCarthy considers the writer as literary anthropologist in our time of data saturation, giving Stéphane Mallarmé a major role: In his landmark essay-cum-manifesto The Book,...

The New Yorker's Daniel Mendelsohn considers Sappho's poetry in light of recent (two within the last decade) additional discoveries. From The New Yorker: One day not long after New Year’s,...