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“Soap Boxing,” the reigning slam champs and St. Paul’s hometown team, won their fourth Poetry Slam Championship in their hometown yesterday. The five person crew beat out seventy-five other...

After re-reading his youthful attempts at poetic genius only to discover that they were “cringe-inducingly bad,” 35-year-old filmmaker Vernon Lott decided not to burn the evidence but instead expose...

Susan Yount was raised on a farm in Southern Indiana, now lives in Chicago, and once worked at a Cracker Barrel somewhere in between. Yount, who earned first place in...

As an active member of FoLAR, Friends of the Los Angeles River, writer and poet Lewis MacAdams has been advocating for the oft-forgotten river for years. In this Los...

The New York Times Book Review took a look at he recently released collection of Beatnik correspondence, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan and David...

Sharon Olds. Louise Glück. John Ashbery. Put these names together, and most would assume that the award-winners are being lauded as a trio of poets who exemplify gravitas and excellence. Not...

In “Uphill both ways,” Josh Wilson at the New Republic deconstructs English poet Geoffrey Hill’s depiction of all things God-related--sacrifice, creation, the sins of the father and Hill as the...

In this interview with Dwight Hobbes of the Daily Planet, Minnesota poet Steve Healey shares some of the inspirations behind his latest collection, 10 Mississippi, including post-punk, Wallace Stevens, and...

When faced with literary conundrums, Paris Review editor Lorin Stein gives some very sage-like advice. This week's quandaries dealt with what books were most appropriate to read aloud while accosting...

It's Andy Warhol's birthday today (woulda been 82), which is the perfect occasion to remark on this week's cover story, "Screen Test Superstar." Art historian Chelsea Weathers tracks...