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Daisy Fried reviews two new books about death for The New York Times. It’s an appropriate topic for the newspaper, since they always seem to be reporting on it! Anyway,...

At NewScientist's CultureLab, Jim Giles takes a look at the various emerging forms of "digital poetry." Hypertext and electronic literature are nothing new, people have been capitalizing on the interactivity...

Over at the Book Bench, New Yorker poetry critic Dan Chiasson has a top eleven books of the year: I get lots of books of poetry in the mail. Most make...

SFist interviews the Bay Area composer John Adams on the San Francisco Symphony's performance of his oratorio El Niño ten years after its debut with Peter Sellars directing. The present...

So, have y'all checked out the poetry now available in the new Google e-bookstore?

The Lemon Hound blog, always a reliable source of intelligence, has posted a speculative and associative close-reading of Anne Carson's poem "Tag," which recently appeared in the New Yorker. Instead...

Robert P. Baird, Poetry contributor and blogger over at 3 Quarks Daily, has posted a terrific article regarding the the similarities between the strategies of transparency that WikiLeaks founder Julian...

The International Necronautical society "comprises an amorphous and often occluded network of writers, artists, philosophers, and others." It was founded by novelist Tom McCarthy and boasts Simon Critchley as it's...

With impending holiday travel, it bears remembering to "be careful" when taking poetry with you on vacation. In case you don't already have your own traveling poetry bag, Hugh Laurie...

Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania will be streaming their symposium "Poetry in 1960" live at 6pm EST tonight, Monday, December 6th. Hosted by Writers House faculty director Al...