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Comics artist--and Beat poetry enthusiast--Harvey Pekar has died.

Meghan O'Rourke tackles Carson's art book of grief in this week's issue: Nox is a luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of an elegy, which is why it evokes...

The poet Geoffrey Hill, at home in Cambridge, 1984, with his then girlfriend, now wife, Alice Goodman and their cat Monica. In photographer Judith Aronson’s new collection, Likenesses, ...

That’s what Caroline Mary Crew over at Flotsam suggested in a piece examining the prose poem’s “inherent identity crisis.” Through an analysis of “Deer Dancer” by Joy Harjo,...

The Brooklyn Rail solicited friends and colleagues (all of whom are noted scholars, artists, critics and writers) to come up with their top five books for summer reading. Some...

In his New York Times Book Review piece on Daisy Hay's group biography of the English late Romantic poets (aptly titled The Young Romantics), Ben Downing takes a look at...

In Pitch, the fourth volume in a predicted six-volume tome entitled Drafts, Rachel Blau DuPlessis proves why “Midrashic Sensibility” isn’t limited to Torah study. Critic David Kaufmann examines how...

The St. Louis Riverfront Times takes a look at the recently-purchased childhood home of T.S. Eliot (cat statue (pictured above) included): Eliot lived in this house when he wrote his first...

Believe it or not, lip syncing to Lady Gaga is not the best thing about YouTube. At a panel on "writing in the Internet age" poet Jane Hirshfield suggested...

Artists should be compensated for their work, but at what price? In today's Wall Street Journal, memoirist Tony Woodlief questions the modern copyright practice of charging exorbitant sums for the...