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At The Rumpus, Diana Whitney reviews Cynthia Cruz's third book, Wunderkammer (Four Way Books 2014), which features for its cover a photograph of James Joyce's daughter, Lucia Joyce, dancing at...

Hyperallergic's James Gibbons recalls his favorite conversations with Harvey Shapiro. Shapiro passed away last year just shy of his eighty-ninth birthday. James Gibbons writes in to Hyperallergic on the occasion...

At The New Yorker, C.K. Williams honors Galway Kinnell, who passed away early last week. Kinnell and Williams knew each other for half a century and according to Williams, Kinnell...

For Artforum, Abraham Adams writes about the Czech poet and translator Bohumila Grögerová, who died this August in Prague. Grögerová, Adams writes, was the "poet responsible for [a major anthology...

The Believer Logger published an excerpt last week from the forthcoming Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man by Marcus Baram. "A Look at Gil Scott-Heron" details how "the rhythm of...

Admirers of the assemblage artist, Joseph Cornell, an admirer of poetry and inspiration to many poets as well, will be pleased to know that the Getty Research Institute has acquired...

This will be my final post about the compromised body. It is becoming more prevalent for plants to make music. Here, the sound artist Mileese takes the electrical impulses (or “micro-voltages”)...

It's on! In a recent report on the Melville House blog, MHP recaps Amazon's plans to open a new pop-up warehouse in Manhattan, across from the Empire State Building, just...

Next in a well-trod line of the literary drug-experimentalists who precede us: At The Public Domain Review, New Zealand-based scholar Richard Millington explores Georg Trakl's cocaine use, as well as...

In advance of Patti Smith's visit to Chicago as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, which includes a pair of performances at the Old Town School of Folk Music, she...