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via Jacket Copy: Iconic rocker Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for "Just Kids," her memoir of her close relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The win took...

The 2010 Conference on Constrained Poetry promises lectures and workshops on the language of numerology, "poetical mathematics," and other startling discoveries in the in field of limitation. Conceived as a...

Jay-Z and Cornel West at the New York Public Library. Enjoy:

Try is a xeroxed and folded 8-and-1/2-by-14-inch magazine issued by poets David Brazil and Sara Larsen. It began appearing out of the Bay area in 2008, maintaining an impressive rate...

Tell me if you've heard this one before: Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Uidobro, Gonsalo Rojas and Nikanor Parra are on a Russian subway car... Moscow Underground today launches its "Poetry...

Alice Walker spoke to Googlers as part of their authors series back in October about her latest book of poetry, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing and why she chooses...

Nate Pritts, poet and editor of H_NGM_N, has passed along news that poet and teacher Steve Orlen has died. Here's Orlen's poem "In the House of the Voice of...

Here’s your daily dose of dada, a sound poem entitled “L'amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer,” written in 1916 for the Caberet Voltaire by Tristain Tzara, Richard Hulsenbeck and Marcel...

Steven Fama’s blog boasts new translations of five poems from Aimé Césaire’s 1948 book, Soleil cou coupe, which will be published as Solar Throat Slashed (!). The translations are...

A Behrle-esque website called American Poetry Dot Biz, which features a large picture of some kind of McRib-y thing in front of an American flag on its homepage, does not...