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It's rare for the New York Times books section to cover poetry, even rarer to cover poetry from small or independent presses. Whether this is from long-standing ties between...

Though Allen Ginsberg earned fame from his poetry, he didn’t make much money. In the 80’s, when a financially-strapped Ginsberg rediscovered a plethora of photographs he’d taken of his...

Here’s a suggestion to lift the spirits of all those poets rejected by the Paris Review: hop a plane to Maui for the annual Poetry Body Slam (don't forget to...

If your life has simply become a question of what to do when the popular TV show Mad Men isn’t on, then Flavorpill has just done you an enormous favor,...

Most well-known as the mastermind behind science fiction hit Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card is also a columnist and conservative activist (yikes!) who has some ideas on how to crack...

We’ve all done it: walked into a bookstore, found a book we want, glanced at the price tag, and left empty-handed with plans to get it cheaper on Amazon. On...

Songwriter, novelist, and poet Joe Pernice has become a puppet with plans. (More about puppets and poetry (with less swears!) here).

As the students and alumni of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics continue to blog and tweet their concerns over the school’s recent changes (23 members of the...

In this month’s American Poet, cultural critic Robert Polito illuminates the secret passageways that connect horror films with poetry. Polito begins with the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe...