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John Berryman's 100! Even if he's dead. There's much revelry in celebration of the centenary of Berryman's birth, including at FSG (Berryman's publisher) and of course, right here at the...

The New York Times reports that a gaggle of events are sheduled, uh, we mean, scheduled, for this weekend in celebration of the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth. Yup! 100...

Wow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is rolling out all the John Berryman goods in the midst of his centennial celebration. As we mentioned last week, FSG is publishing four new...

Online arts and culture denizens Publik/Private spend a while with poet and performer Cecilia Corrigan on the occasion of her new book of poetry, Titanic. Learn more about Cecilia's writing...

The results are in! NYC's Queer/Art/Mentorship announces the winners of 2014 Fellowships! To create and sustain community among queer artists across the five boroughs, each year, the Queer/Art/Mentorship program brings...

"If anyone can write a Cindy Sherman still, Sina Queyras can," writes Michaela Mullin at Nomadic Sojourns, of Queyras's newest book, MxT (or Memory x Time) (Coach House Books 2014)....

Gillian Conoley's translation of Henri Michaux's Thousand Times Broken (City Lights Books 2014) has been reviewed by Ron Slate at On the Seawall. Noting that "[i]n 1955, determined to evade...

At The New Yorker, Dan Chiasson reviews (and very well contextualizes) Claudia Rankine's newest collection of poems, Citizen: An American Lyric. The poet Claudia Rankine’s new volume, her fifth, is...

The poet, activist, and educator, Henry Braun, passed away last week according to Split This Rock and Daily Bulldog. Braun's poems appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and American Poetry Review,...

Navajo Nation's first-ever Poet Laureate Luci Tapahonso (also a professor at the University of New Mexico) talks to Natalie Diaz about what that position means to her at Los Angeles...