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Is there such a thing as "race neutral" language? At Slate, Jonathan Farmer reviews Claudia Rankine's new and stunning American lyric, Citizen: Few words echo as far and fast as...

—but what I can say is that this article by Patrick Durgin about truth, government sensitivity, and social romanticism, newly published at Jacket 2 sure takes the cake. Delve in...

At The Rumpus, James Patrick Dunagan's delves into Jack Hirschman's latest collection, resurrected from deep in the archives, The Viet Arcane. Hirschman has been a long-time fixture on the San...

Vanity Fair talked to actor Joely Richardson about her new Off-Broadway play, The Belle of Amherst, where the English theater royal plays none other than American poet Emily Dickinson in...

Right now if you head over to Reddit you can ask Claudia Rankine, well, anything! That's right, any and everything you've ever wanted to know about the author of the...

This weekend (!!!) a plethora of small presses with converge on the city of Los Angeles and together they will merge into the Open Press Literary Festival. The two day...

Over at Pen America, an excerpt of Cole Swensen's On Walking On, which "takes [Robert] Walser’s novel, The Walk, and the person himself, Swiss born writer Robert Walser (b. 1878-1956),...

On October 2nd in Beijing's Songzhuang art district, Wang Zang, a Chinese poet, planned to speak at a poetry reading in support of protestors in Hong Kong. Chinese police...

Well this is NEWS: City Lights announces a new book from Diane di Prima! "This collection marks the first time in decades that legendary feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima...

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe was best known, in his lifetime, as an editor and critic whose cuttingly harsh reviews earned him the nickname "Tomahawk Man?" Or that...