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In 2007, David Buuck hired a private detective to follow him around, and the content of the detective's report eventually made up a long form poem. An interesting experiment...

Timothy Donnelly’s second book, The Cloud Corporation, jumps five spots to number 22 on the contemporary best seller list this week, but look for it to leap even higher in...

Rain: Poems by Don Paterson has been given praise of the highest sort: a handful of Heaney comparisons. Carol Anne Duffy wrote in the Guardian, "To read Rain was to have the privilege of seeing...

In a talk given at the opening of a conference at Harvard, distinguished historian Robert Darnton proposed a bold idea for leveling the information playing field across the nation: create...

British comedy promoter and "Mr. St. Helier" Wayne Stewart devoted his guest post in the BBC's Jersey blog (devoted to the stories behind the stories) to a rant about his utter...

Simon Armitage's poem about a vain quest for icicles earned him this year's Keats-Shelley poetry prize. The award is given to a poem that embodies "modern relevance and Romantic inspiration." This year's theme...

After over two months since the death of Virginia Quarterly Review's managing editor Kevin Morrissey, editor Ted Genoways spoke to the media for the first time about the pressures at VQR...

“Stumbling” is not often an adjective used to praise a poem, but DC top-dog Rod Smith, in an interview with Amy Wright, talks elegantly about the contingency inherent in the...

Ubu.com, probably the most extensive and well-curated archive of avant-garde art, music, literature, and film on the internet, has been hacked. While there are no details as of yet,...

October 14th marks the 56th annual Poetry Day. This year, Poetry Day—which has in the past featured the likes of  T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Adrienne...