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Last year, German singer Ute Lemper included a Charles Bukowski poem between songs in her otherwise poetry-free cabaret show. One thing then led to another as it so often...

In response to Anis Shivani’s takedown of the entire literary establishment in a controversial Huffington Post piece about the most overrated writers, Alison Flood of the Guardian’s book blog suggests...

Hannah Weiner saw words everywhere: in the air, on her forehead, in the mirror. She saw words and she wrote them down in a series of books and chapbooks that...

For all of you in County Sligo, there is now on display at Countess Constance Markievicz's ancestral house a rare photograph of Yeats on his deathbed: The picture of the dying...

Aram Saroyan and David R. Godine have a lot to talk about. Godine has just published Saroyan's book Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s into...

Poet and professor Chris Abani's award-winning novel Graceland charts a Nigerian boy’s transformation into a street smart Elvis impersonator. It sounds benign enough, but the book was removed from a...

Are e-readers and poetry A) totally incompatible, B) destined to settle for one another, or C) meant to be, considering poetry’s inherently uneasy relationship with the page? If you guessed C,...

Words of wisdom by Grant Flint via Language is a Virus.

Amazon.com wants you (and writers like Paul Constant) to know it is more than just a Bezosy cog in the crushing capitalist machine. The mega-retailer has begun awarding grants to...

One year ago, poet and professor Cate Marvin was folding her laundry when she had an epiphany. She wrote an email titled, “As I Stood Folding Laundry: Women’s Writing...