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Kristen Stewart is hardly the first celebrity to write and share her poetry—count James Franco, Jewel, Tupac Shakur, Jimmy Carter and Ally Sheedy among her various forebears—but she might be...

We promised ourselves we would NOT make a Pauly Shore joke because this is just too cool to stoop so low. The University of Arizona has been welcoming poets and...

At Jacket2, a long-awaited review from Cecilia Corrigan on I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press 2012). Corrigan makes some distinctions: "...[T]he reader seeking a clearer...

After 36 years in the East Village, St. Mark's Bookshop's position is again perilous. The bookshop's landlord, Cooper Union, granted a rent reduction to the store for one year and...

I have never known what to do with it. I have never known what to say about it. I once said to someone (who was my academic advisor at the...

In time for the NYU Grey Art Gallery's An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, Christopher Lyon takes a close look at Jess Collins and Robert...

This month, Verso Books published the "love story with infinite possibilities," Nanni Balestrini's 1966 novel Tristano, inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde. No copy is like another, as...

We're shocked and saddened to hear from Bookforum, by way of the East Village blog EV Grieve, that novelist, performer, and poet Maggie Estep has died of a heart attack...

After "Against Conceptualism," Calvin Bedient's essay that wrestles with conceptualism's neutral tone, Drew Gardner responds with flarf and affect at Boston Review and Rachel Galvin with a discussion beginning with...

Poetry Crush's sweethearts have culled together a quite lovely collection of good tidings for the biggest of hearts this Valentine's Day. Volume I includes poems by Shane McCrae, Hannah Gamble,...