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Mande Zecca writes for Jacket2 about Jack Spicer, and more specifically her desire to locate a "'secret history' of postwar coteries and their print media — in particular, the West...

Craig Morgan Teicher writes for NPR about the books he's looking forward to in 2015, writing that "perhaps now we need poetry even more than 'more than ever.'" This is...

The Paris Review posted this charming story yesterday by Ted Trautman about the perils of road-tripping (and book buying)(especially in Iowa City.) From Paris Review: Fourteen years ago, my mom bought...

At NY Times, Saeed Jones reflects on becoming a poet in the face of adversity. In this article, Jones, the author of Prelude to Bruise and a finalist for the...

Jonathan Creasy writes about Susan Howe as “library cormorant” for Los Angeles Review of Books. ("The phrase 'library cormorant' comes from Coleridge. It evokes the greedy, insatiable appetite of...

If you've ever wished for a mobile library with the click of your heels, your search is over. A new mobile library project called "Uni Library" aims to bring libraries...

The New York Times' ArtsBeat reminds us that the National Book Critics Circle Awards are "one of the most prestigious American literary awards...judged by a panel of critics and book...

At Huffington Post on the heels of his newest book (of essays) titled The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination, Carl Phillips speaks with Ben Evans about daring, risk, restlessness,...

"Your House," by Olafur Eliasson The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the January 2015 issue share some books that held their...

At Jacket2, some important questions are asked and answered regarding Conceptual art and conceptual writing. "Who's in? Who's out? What are its limits? Isn't all writing somewhat conceptual? Or, conversely,...