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Former British children's laureate Michael Rosen deconstructs the recently-published Ted Hughes poem "Last Letter," which recounts the days before Sylvia Path's death. What exactly should readers glean from this artifact,...

Instead of, say, complaining about the existence of MFAs in comment-boxes and dreary rants, Rachel Zolf decided to playfully critique the system, in the name of creating art. She’s composing...

Jeff Thompson has written a piece of music based on Shakespeare’s sonnets. But instead of writing music to accompany the words (which, let’s face it, would have been a bit...

...and what we like are videos of kids reading Gertrude Stein. Here's another:

In this week's poem analysis for Slate, Robert Pinsky illustrates how poems can possess sonic harmony without end rhyme. The robot-enthusiast and former laureate uses Robert Frost's blank verse "An...

Coninciding with the release of his short story collection, Palo Alto, James Franco has rounded up a few of his favorite books for the Daily Beast. The usual suspects make...

The spooky season is upon us, but it won't last for long. Before the jack-o-lanterns start rotting on the front porch and while the pre-Halloween candy is still stuck in...

The Miami Herald ran an interesting article on Latino poetry this weekend, which suggests that younger Latino poets are writing less from the perspective of a shared cultural experience, and...

City Lights has compiled the first three volumes of From a Broken Perfume Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate by poet and novelist Nathaniel Mackey: The great American jazz novel of...

Frameworks is a listserv that list-serves the community surrounding experimental film, and whose archives are public. Recently, it was impromptu forum for a debate about whether or not to celebrate...