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In The Glassblowers, George Sipos’s second collection of poetry, his concoction of equal parts doubt and wonder gives his poems a melancholic tinge. This review at the Globe and Mail...

Publishers Weekly has a starred review of the letters of Ted and Sandy Berrigan, Dear Sandy, Hello, due out this fall: In 1962, poet Ted Berrigan (The Sonnets) was an unknown...

In response to some mail referring to William S. Burroughs as a "dirty old poet," the folks at The AWL decided to set the record straight: Burroughs, along with...

In this the third day of the Huffington Post’s artist’s telephone game, artist Nancy Reddin Kienholz responds to a poem by Nicole Walker which was written in response to a...

“Edgy arts organizations are like baby boomers, established and hardly available for young artists still struggling with their identity,” writes Nancy Wozny of Culturemap in her modestly titled piece,...

This morning, Ron Silliman has posted a representative sample of commentary he received regarding his decision to shut down the comment stream on his blog, one of the more lively...

The New Yorker takes a look at Sylvia Plath and the UAE Blackberry ban: Once the announced ban on BlackBerry devices takes effect in October, folks in the United Arab Emirates...

Here are the twenty-nine finalists for the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship awards. The winners will be announced on September 1: Justin Boening Jamaal May Courtney Queeney Tarfia Faizullah Dora Malech George David Clark Laura Koritz Julie Brown Nate...

It's now officially August on the Internet:

Quite a delayed delivery, but well worth the wait: Scotland's national archives have released letter composed by one John Mitchell who met with Scotland's national bard Robert Burns just...