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At the New York Times, Bill Friskics-Warren reports on a new project co-produced by Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, setting the legendary performer's recently published poetry to music. "By turns flinty...

For our April 2018 playlist, we asked contributor Paul Tran to curate a selection of music for us.

Previousness insists. My attraction to the palimpsest as a strategy of poetics lies in my interest to address diasporic conditions as states of superimposition.

Laura Carter reviews Kate Greenstreet's new book, The End of Something (Ahsahta Press, 2017), for Fanzine. "In previous books, she has written about the impermanence of life and love, and she...

Today we found out who the 2018 Guggenheim Fellows are, and in this year's class we spy a number of poets! A little about the award, first: On April 4, 2018,...

Earlier this week was John Wieners Day, proclaimed Dennis Cooper's blog in a restored post that collects an introduction excerpted from a Geoff Ward obit in The Independent; several links to resources and...

At In These Times, Carson Vaughan documents the recent National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and explores the ways that participants did and did not want to address, or plan for, the...

Water assumes the shape of its container. Water that overspills its container immediately assumes the shape of the universe. Meaning also assumes the shape of its (semiotic) container. But to fulfill...

Dennis James Sweeney reviews poet and writer Mariko Nagai's Irradiated Cities (Les Figues Press, 2017) for Newfound, a nonprofit publisher and journal based in Austin, Texas. There are photographs here, in addition to text: "The photographs are...