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The Wave Pictures - Sweetheart from Ben Reed on Vimeo. This music video for The Wave Picture's "Sweetheart" is made out of animated, torn up, drawn on and maybe even a...

Not much has changed at the top of the contemporary best seller list this week. The game of musical chairs between Mary Oliver, Seamus Heaney, Kay Ryan, and Terrance Hayes...

Voice Alpha describes itself as "a repository for thoughts, theories, suggestions, likes and dislikes and anything else related to the art and science of reading poetry aloud for an audience."...

Over on the Verse magazine blog, Amani Morrison has soaked in Sawako Nakayasu's Texture Notes: The narrator’s hyper-awareness of the eccentric and the mundane paired with her curious, exploratory nature push...

Join us here at Harriet tomorrow, December 9, at 4pm EST for a live interview with "Craft Work" blogger Cedar Sigo. The CoverItLive comments section will be open for questions,...

Half-century-old blind item: An anonymous user asked the MetaFilter offshoot MetaChat to help find the name of the poet her artist aunt had an affair with in 1950s New York....

Jeremy Dibbell reviews John Darnton's new book Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris on his PhiloBiblos blog. The book centers around the 1749 "Affair of the Fourteen,"...

This video raises one of the more urgent questions of the day: What poem would you break over someone's head? And whose?

Jerome Rothenberg has posted a few sample poems from Outsider Poets: A Mini-Anthology in Progress, on his blog. The poems are by Leonel Lienlaf, Jaime Huenún, and Elicura Chihualifaf, three...

Huh? Today we found not one but two articles on folks who have gotten in trouble for threatening others with poems. Are poems the new anonymous phone calls, now that...