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The first poet laureate of Arizona (and an Arizona State University Professor) Alberto Ríos is the new Piper Center Director, according to a press release distributed by the university's digital...

In the New Yorker's Personal History column, James Atlas discusses his experience gathering and devouring Delmore Schwartz's archives. At the age of twenty-five, Atlas secured a contract with Farrar, Straus...

Big news in poetry today: Jorie Graham takes home the Wallace Stevens Award, which is given annually by the Academy of American Poets to honor a poet's lifetime mastery in...

Fascinating pull-quote in this review of Mónica de la Torre's new book from Ugly Duckling Presse: "The achievement of The Happy End / All Welcome might be how far it goes to make...

"Robbins has put the same intellectual and aesthetic care into his critical work as he puts into his verse," writes Justin Taylor, who has been tasked with criticizing a book of...

I want to point a beam of light towards a sample from the gallery ephemera files and a unique poet’s object that are both housed in the Special Collections of...

At Electric Literature, join Bat City Review Managing Editor Katelin Kelly and look into the history of Beat Generation poet, Elise Cowen. Cowen, a close colleague of Allen Ginsberg, shared an apartment...

We're thrilled that Escape Into Life is drawing attention to Jesseca Ynez Simmons's "docufantasy" aboout the poet Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice. In reviewing the short film, EIL explains: " To quote one...

The New Yorker's Carina del Valle Schorske introduces readers to the writings of Cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz in the latest installment of the magazine's Page-Turner section. Loynaz's poetry all but ceased...

Filmmaker, poet, and all-around avant-garde hero Jonas Mekas publishes three entries from a January 1948 diary—originally printed by Black Thistle Press in 1991 and titled I Had Nowhere to Go (to be reissued this...