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The life of 19th century poet John Clare was bookended by early years of toiling in the fields and final days marked by madness in a mental hospital. In...

Poet and novelist A.S. Byatt spoke with Charlotte Higgins at the Edinburgh international book festival about her novel, The Children's Book. Bayatt also shares her thoughts on religion (Sorry, God; Hello,...

A man runs, and so does a nose. There’s fall, can’t get up, and then there’s fall, crisp air and auburn leaves. Words are more than their shape and texture,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley—poet, radical thinker, advocate of free love and "the vegetable diet"—rocked the boat back in the day. He was expelled from the University of Oxford for passing out...

GalleyCat reports that Katha Pollitt—known for her essay collections, two volumes of poetry, and her "Subject to Debate" column in the Nation—is the 31st recipient of the American Book Award...

Gawker media blog Jezebel came up with a list of 10 lesbian and bisexual poets they adored, and because we adore, we’re passing it along. Unsurprisingly, feminist legends Audrey...

What to do with Langston Hughes’ condemned Cleveland home? We linked to an earlier story saying that it's safe, for now, but Cleveland is trying to figure out where to...

Phoenix-based poet Cynthia Hogue had left New Orleans for dry land a decade before Hurricane Katrina hit. Still, Hogue felt compelled to address the tragedy, and so she interviewed 13...

Cleveland housing officials are fighting to keep the condemned home of Langston Hughes from being demolished. City groups hope that the home where Hughes spent his boyhood can remain...

"When we begin to imagine a future in which the places of our past no longer exist, we see ruin," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey in Beyond Katrina: A...