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By publishing the 999-line poem “Pale Fire” separate from the sprawling footnotes that make up Nabokov’s 1962 novel, editor Mo Cohen and artist Jean Holabird are setting the stage for...

David Kirby made a compelling argument for poetry’s pointlessness in his New York Times review of Maxine Kumin’s “deeply satisfying” new and selected poems, Where I Live. His argument seems...

Blogger and poet Jessica Smith has a major issue with Ron Silliman’s comprehensive poetry blog. Not with Silliman or the poets he writes about - she praises him for...

The Paris Review saga may finally be coming to a happy-ish close: Daniel Nester over at We Who Are About To Die reports that PR editor Lorin Stein is offering...

In “In defense of Amazon” Ruth Franklin at The New Republic responds to Colin Robinson’s scathing critique of Amazon’s businesses practices in a piece that appeared in the The Nation...

In the age when we can find anything on the Internet, what have we lost? According to the South Carolina Post and Courier columnist Ken Burger, we’ve lost our poets....

When Kristen Hoggatt joined the Peace Corps and set out to teach ESL in Uzbekistan, little did she know she’d be reciting subversive slam verses with impressionable youngsters. In a...

Since Ouyang Yu came to Australia from China on a scholarship in 1991, his output of poetry and criticism has been prolific. Yu is a firm believer that the...

A Moscow court ruled that poet Yulia Privedennaya, 34, was not educating young poets in a youth commune as she claimed, but actually running an illegal militant group and abusing...

Right now in Oakland, the 95 Cent Skool is happening.  Think about it. The Skool--put on by poet, cultural critic, and professor Joshua Clover (a.k.a “Jane Dark”) and poet,...