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Check out this stockpile of out-of-print artists' books. Digitized and free online! Sweet.

Laurel Nakadate's film Untitled simultaneously makes poetry sexy and succeeds in making sexiness entirely beside the point, reducing the body to simply a matter-of-fact vehicle for commenting on itself. Nakadate...

In a November 13th discussion at Poets House on “(Re) Writing Culture,” Sueyeun Juliette Lee "said that one of her main concerns is 'achieving a sense of belonging' and...

Nancy Mattoon of Booktryst has a fascinating post on Lydia Maria Child, author of the ubiquitous Thanksgiving poem that begins: "Over the river, and through the wood, to Grandfather's house...

Remember Nerve.com? Sure you do! Anyways, it still exists and it has some advice for how to improve your game. Advice from poets. About sex. ...

Check out the list of poetry winners here.

Brian Spears, over at The Rumpus, loves Jena Osman’s new book, The Network, not so much for its poetry, but for the way it challenges the definition of poetry. The...

Poet Rob Fitterman has made much of his published work available for free, in PDF format, on his personal website. While it’s not unusual for artists and musicians to...

In a recent article for the Contemporary Poetry Review, poet-critic David Yezzi laments the unwillingness of contemporary poets to write criticism. He means “criticism” in the strong sense—laying out...

Early this month, Yale University Press published the Anthology of Rap, a compendium of hip hop lyrics that purportedly showed the evolutions of the genre. But almost immediately critics...