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Here's National Book Award winner Patti Smith talking with Jonathan Lethem. Video via MobyLives. And here's National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes on the Jim Lehrer News...

Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Lisa Russ Spaar explores former @harriet_poetry tweeter Kiki Petrosino's poem "Ragweed": In a powerful move, Petrosino puts into italics the very “rag rage” (how...

Speaking of John Cage:

Hey, what do you know about Korean poetry? Well, get to learnin'! Brother Anthony, of Taize, has made a large number of his print translations available for free online. While the...

British conceptualists Simon Morris, the editor of Information as Material, and Nick Thurston collectively answer some questions about conceptual writing for ArtInfo. Their answers are clear and create transparent historical...

Patti Smith's recent National Book Award victory led the Huffington Post's John Lundberg to post a short appreciation of her poetic work. Smith's poetry, according to Lundberg, sidesteps the...

Next time anyone accuses you otherwise, you can tell them you know exactly what it takes to make a miniature sculptural automaton of Paul Verlaine being visited by absinthe...

Adam O'Riordan takes Guardian readers on a tour through epithalamia (no x-rays or invasive surgery required.) Though it sounds more like an obscure piece of anatomy you never knew existed...

Maya Angelou and Howard Dodson, executive director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, joined NPR's Michel Martin to discuss the Center's acquisition of Angelou's personal correspondence, documents,...

Ah, well, the “members” of “schools” never really like the names of their “schools,” and I’m sure nobody will like this name either, though it is funny. Gregory Cowles,...