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Just when you thought that print books were going the way of the dinosaur, it looks like they're here to stay — at least for this holiday season. In a...

Is flarf the Jon Stewart of the poetry world? That's what Adam Roberts opines in his third installment in the virtues of verse series for the Atlantic's culture blog. Roberts's...

Poet and novelist George Dawes Green thinks the Internet is so over. Green started the Moth storytelling series in New York in 1997, and last month he kicked off the Unchained...

“Real colored girls,” she said, “are offended and bored.” That about sums up Jen Graves' take in the Stranger on Tyler Perry's new film. Though Graves feels the movie fails...

Charles Bukowski abstained from live readings during the last 14 years of his life, but he remains immortalized in his poetry — and now on video. One Tough Mother is...

In preparation for her role in the forthcoming film based on Ntozake Shange's verse play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” Janet Jackson thought...

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye will read her work this Thursday night as at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her numerous books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems ...

Sam Anderson reviews Yale University Press’s new collection of rap lyrics, The Anthology of Rap, for New York Magazine. That’s right: the most comprehensive anthology of rap lyrics is published...

Agrippe, William Gibson’s self-erasing poem from 1992, has been archived online, at The Agrippe Files. The original book sported columns of DNA sequences matched with old-timey-style etchings, and came with...

The highly-anticipated 2010 midterm elections are finally here, so let's restore a few shreds of sanity with some poems about voting and the political process. Harriet is exhausted by stale...