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There’s an app for everything! Literally! And now there’s even an app for Tom Phillips’ beautiful erasure poem / painting, A Humument, which he’s been working on for the last...

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As economists continue to tend toward sunny optimism in the face of collapse, the Wall Street Journal notes that finding appropriate doom-laden references within the field are few and far...

George Murray's Questionless Books Interview is a series of interviews conducted by supplying the interviewee with unfinished sentences, and allowing him or her to fill in the blanks. In the...

After making their debuts in late August, the newest titles from Mary Oliver and Seamus Heaney have remained at or near the top of the contemporary best seller list, and...

Don’t you think that the most disappointing things about computers is that they aren’t human enough? And those speech programs—bleh! By now, we’re all familiar with the way...

Every now and then, some old dude says something about how things aren’t as good as they used to be, and about how the culture is in decline, and about...

Ronnie Scheib of Variety reviews "To Be Heard," the collaborative documentary about the lives of three Bronx high school students enrolled in a poetry course that won both the competition...

After MIT dropped its Advanced Poetry Workshop, students got in a huff. Now, John Lundberg at the Huffington Post wonders what the renowned Tech school could actually learn from...