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The 19th century arts-and-craftsman William Morris is best remembered for his textiles and decorative arts, but it's his books that will be on display in an exhibition at Buffalo's Central...

Just in case 2010 found you locked in a basement—or with Comcast internet (zing!)—here's what your non-secluded peers made popular over the course of the year: The most-read articles from...

TimeOut Chicago's John Beer talks to Kenning Editions publisher Patrick Durgin about The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater, 1945–1985 released in January and edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil....

"I believe," says Glenn Beck onhis radio show, "that what America needs more of is poetry." Nice! Crazy man is talking some sense! Er, wait. Maybe he's...

Following up on their conversational documentary The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison carry over the discussion to book form in The Etiquette of Freedom. In SF...

Over at Bookforum, novelist Laird Hunt digs into Christian Hawkey's Ventrakl: Christian Hawkey's hard-to-classify Ventrakl puts prose, poetry, and photographs to fascinating work as he attempts to draw closer to the...

The University of Wales has just announced that Clamor, a first book by Philadelphia poet Elyse Fenton, has won the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30: American poet Elyse Fenton...

Poet and critic Dan Chiasson is blogging this week over at the Paris Review's "Culture Diaries." Good eating tips and some poetry: 9:30 A.M. I meet the students in...

As the Oxford English Dictionary relaunches online this week, its attempts to uncover "the first known use of every sense of every word in the English language" will soon be...

Poet Michael Palmer is interviewed by Sarah Rosenthal over on poets.org, in a short but generative conversation about poetry (duh), its work and its politics. According to Palmer: Poetry is...