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When Tan Lin’s terrific Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking came out earlier this year, he and editor Danny Snelson organized a sort of happening in...

Are you disappointed because your MFA will never lead to financial success? Well, here comes “controversial” New York Times best-selling author James Frey, with a business opportunity that simply...

An article in the Yale Daily News in which Paris Review editor Lorin Stein bemoans the current state of literature is causing a bit of a fuss online. What...

Naropa University has tapped Thurston Moore to lead a writing workshop next summer at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics' Summer Writing Program. "I think (Thurston) will convey his passion...

Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng takes on the question of poetry's relevance in The Independent, making a case that a "vacuous, objective" application of relevance doesn't hold up when "great poems transcend time." The...

Thanks to Haiku Hero, poetry fans in cubicles everywhere finally have their own personalized distraction to add to their solitaire games and Sudoku. The Flash-based game pits you against a...

When was the last time you read a formally adventurous novel? You know, the kind of novel poets read even if they don't read that many novels? For some...

Here’s a YouTube video of Eileen Myles give a lecture and reading in the California College of the Arts Graduate Studies Lecture Series. Myles reads from her book The...

Al Filreis has posted a excerpt on his blog from a discussion he had with Robert Creeley about William Carlos Williams. Obviously Williams's style had an enormous impact on Creeley,...

Often overlooked in the mythology of DIY is its equally important partner-in-ethos “BOTNEASTOAAC,” Be Open To New Experiences And Seek Them Out At All Costs. It’s a two way street;...