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Two Ferguson protestors have received an award from PEN New England, a branch of PEN American Center, for their writing in the wake of Michael Brown's death. DeRay McKesson and...

The search for the next Los Angeles poet laureate is on, reports the LA Times. The poet laureate serves a two-year term and does lots of public appearances and readings...

There's more than a few reasons we can think of to lead us to say "Maya Angelou Forever!" The latest is a slightly more tangible one: we're talking about the...

In this recent installment of interviews at The Los Angeles Review of Books, Fady Joudah talks to Philip Metres in a conversation entitled "At the Borders of Our Tongue." From...

Not sure if you've seen POETRYSEEN yet, but if you like visual recordings of poets, you're M-F-E-O, for POETRYSEEN features short videos of poetry readings and poem films, and is...

At The New Yorker, Dan Chiasson writes of a January 18 afternoon in 1914, wherein Ezra Pound took someone to lunch: "Ezra Pound, helped by William Butler Yeats, and, behind...

Oh snap! Like all years, The Fanzine hosts Kevin Killian's annual Oscar after-party. This year, Killian notes that the Oscar celebration was maybe a little too White Christmas. From Fanzine: Not...

Poet Purdey Lord Kreiden, French heir-apparent to the transfigured decadence throne, if she wants it, has been reading in New York for the past week with a new chapbook, Children...

After two years of forensic tests conducted in three countries, Pablo Neruda's remains will return to Chile and be reburied at the side of his third wife, Mathilde Urritia. Although...

It’s hard to believe that it has been a little over a year since Amiri Baraka left us. Fortunately, we can still hear Baraka’s voice echoing in his poems. Our...