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Langdon Hammer writes "Inside & Underneath Words," a review of Susan Howe's Debths, for the new issue of NYRB. Hammer moves first through the classics: "My Emily Dickinson is a powerful book about...

Poet Morgan Parker writes about the Bill Cosby trial, respectability politics, and male entitlement for Lenny Letter. "I'm one of maybe three black women in the overflow courtroom they've designated for...

In the 2000s, I was in high school outside of Los Angeles and worshipped the hardcore/grindcore scene throughout Southern California. Every weekend, I would attend backyard shows in the shacks...

At The Guardian, Will Storr introduces readers to Ira Lightman, a poet and literature afficionado who is on a mission to call out poetry plagiarists. Lightman's practice is, predictably, interconnected...

At Hyperallergic, Robert Archambeau provides a glimpse at Anthony Madrid's latest collection of poetry, Try Never, out now from the crazy geniuses at Canarium. "If we were looking for a...

At PBS NewsHour, Elizabeth Flock examines the ways that poetry improves inmates' quality of life at San Quentin.  In particular, she meets Nicola White, who publishes San Quentin Artists, a digital...

At Luna Luna Magazine, editor and writer Lisa Marie Basile asks, "Is it OK to Make Fun of Instagram Poets?" Well, is it? "My life as a writer unfolded slowly,...

Unfortunately for nerds like us, as mentioned last week, you no longer can watch the television series devoted to reimagining William Shakespeare's teenage years, set to rock music, because the series...

For our September 2017 playlist, we asked contributor Tyler Mills to curate a selection of music for us. You can read about her approach to creating the playlist below. Click here...

Andy Fitch spoke with Etel Adnan for the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, focusing in particular on decades of work as encapsulated by two publications: To look at the sea...