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Marianne Boruch's newest collection of poetry is inspired by her time in a medical school anatomy class during a Faculty Fellowship in a Second Discipline in 2008 at Purdue University,...

John Yau writes about the unique strangeness and beauty of Christopher Middleton's prose for Hyperallergic. After writing "Why I Am a Member of the Christopher Middleton Fan Club" (The Brooklyn...

Charles Bernstein writes on Jacket2 of Anne-Marie Albiach's collected poems, Cinq le Choeur (1966-2012), just published by Poésie/Flammarion. "This magnificent 600-page collection of one of the signal achievements of postwar...

Today is Dylan Thomas's centenary: the 100th year of his birth. In Wales (and at The New York Times), Thomas's granddaughter, Hannah Ellis (president of the Dylan Thomas Society of...

Since we've been following the start of the #AmtrakResidency program, you'll be pleased to know that the very first writer in residence has completed his trip. In this case, that's...

I am going to talk about Open Press, a two-day literary festival that took place in Los Angeles this past October 11 & 12. Let me be clear: in...

Good gravy: Dorothea Lasky and Adam Fitzgerald are in conversation at GRANTA! "Like I want to ask you: what’s your favourite Cassavetes film? But maybe I’ll ask that another time."...

Jennifer Krasinski talks to Claudia La Rocco about poetry, performance, criticism, and more at BOMB Daily. We've been reading La Rocco's new book, The Best Most Useless Dress, just out...

Jennifer Moxley has a new website, and much of the content there already feels like an extension of her memoir writing in The Middle Room. Just up is a beautiful...

Dorothea Lasky, the Village Voice's favorite poet, has a favorite poet of her own. And that poet is none other than rap superstar Drake. Yes, 27 year old Canadian rapper...