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Remember this? The three year old kid flawlessly reciting Billy Collins's poem "Litany"? Well, the Arizona Poetry Center decided to put this precocious kid (Samuel Chelpka) and Billy Collins in...

Philadelphia poet CA Conrad has been posting his “somatic poetry exercises” on his (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises blog for awhile now, creating a rather vast resource for poets and creative writing...

Poet J. Gordon Faylor has launched Gauss PDF, a website which publishes “digitally based works” in pdf format. Taking the possibilities offered by print-on-demand technology one step further, pdf...

Lowest-common-denominator thinker Malcolm Gladwell famously proposed the “10,000 hour rule,” which suggests that in order to become great at something, one must dedicate at least 10,000 hours to its practice....

Abuzzed by Howl, it seems like everyone is (rightly) re-abuzz about Allen Ginsberg. So it might be a good time to watch or re-watch Jonas Mekas’s haunting and intimate...

The Advanced Poetry Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was recently cut for financial reasons, according to MIT's student paper The Tech, and at least one student finds the...

Michel Houellebecq, the popular and controversial French novelist, has won his country’s top literary honor, the Prix Goncourt, for his most recent work The Map and the Territory. Houellebecq...

Romanians are different from Americans. When one of their great poets dies, thousands of people turn up to mourn. Adrian Paunescu, a figure of national literary fame, was extremely...

Are you starting to feel like the last person on earth with a Walkman, you with your print books, inky newspaper, and no plans to purchase an e-reader? Perhaps this...