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Scottish poet Edwin Morgan—deemed “poetry’s true son” by Carol Ann Duffy—has died at 90. Morgan was revered for his poetry as well as his poetic translations, critical essays and...

C.W. Anderson, a professor of journalism and media sociology at the College of Staten Island, offers a syllabus for the digitally-saturated masses in the Atlantic’s science & tech section. ...

The poet Ashley David has taken a poem of mourning and turned it inside out. Her work could be categorized as a visual elegy, a short film, or a theoretical...

Why is war poetry so often relegated to the Great War? Who determines which war poets are included in the canon? These questions are just a sample of the ones...

Charlottesville weekly The Hook investigates further into the Kevin Morrissey tragedy with an in-depth feature called "Tale of Woe." The story looks into the perilous financial situation at the...

Do you know what day it is? Here’s a clue: it’s cliché, saccharine, self-indulgent, cringe worthy, and often associated with angst-ridden teens and sleazy beret-wearing poets who hang out in...

Last week, Ecco Press published the collected prose of venerated Polish writer Zbigniew Herbert and to celebrate the New York Review of Books blog has published "Leonardo's Disquiet," a series...

Mexican American poet and artist Rafael Gonzalez has a few ideas about how to build a healthier world: first, recognize the permeable boundaries of language, culture and nationality; then...

Though David Jones, a painter and poet, was lauded by the likes of T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, he never earned mainstream critical acclaim. In light of the reprinting of...

Czech poet and literary scholar Ludvík Kundera has passed away at the age of 90. Kundera (who is the cousin of novelist Milan Kundera) published his first collection of poems,...