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Ok, sure. It’s not like a mash-up of a Bush speech is the most timely political gesture, but it’s still amusing, especially when done well. This video, by Lenka...

Maisonneuve reports that in Toronto you can now get poetry that comes with its own stick of gum. This isn't just a mere marketing gimmick where your efforts for digging...

Alex Chambers, a guest blogger for Behind the Lines, writes about teaching in the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Program. Chambers came in to the program hoping to pen...

Antonio Gonzalez's Lambda Literary interview with Eileen Myles covers a lot of ground—race, class, gender, sexuality, politeness, sentimentality, professionalization—but the discussions all revolve around poets' relationships to one another and...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Terrance Hayes’s National Book Award-winning Lighthead re-appeared on the contemporary best seller list at number 2, where it remains this week. Just outside the top ten,...

You know how there are some days when one feels like there's nothing good on the internet - just a bunch of happy cats and angry bloggers? Well, we were...

Sometimes one runs across a really terrific digital poem. For example, Brian Kim Stefans' rendering of Robert Creeley's "I know a man" one letter at a time is a really...

Ugly Duckling Presse is known for their beautiful DIY books, but the fine folks there also do the world a great service by posting some books online, making them free...

Daniel Howden has been reporting from Mogadishu in a series of articles for The Independent. In the final dispatch, he looks at the last of Somalia's poets, once a title...

I have never thought of readings as anything other than inevitable. They are always offered as proof of my way of hearing or listening. On occasion I have produced and...