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I learned how to write in the following way: I was taught to select the most accurate word to describe a given action, object. I was taught to value precision,...

On Leyla McCalla's solo debut, Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, the cellist and former Carolina Chocolate Drops member places adventures in Langston Hughes's poetry amidst Haitian folk songs...

Over the weekend, William McDonald posted a remembrance of W.D. Snodgrass at the New York Times. McDonald reflected on his days as a journalism student at Syracuse University and...

Hey all you Jacket2 fans, you'll want to wander over to Jacket2 today to check out a fabulous feature that went up recently featuring the writing of Irish poet Trevor...

At Poetry Society of America, Robert Fernandez and Blake Bronson-Bartlett write in depth about their very new Stéphane Mallarmé translations--the poems themselves are also up. "[A]s all that has been...

This weekend's Hyperallergic wraps up this previous weekend's marathon reading of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans, hosted by Triple Canopy. Morten Høi Jensen reports on the madness, from the...

[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Jamaal May’s “There Are Birds Here” and “Per Fumum” appear in the February 2014 issue....

Rene Ricard has died. The Warhol Factory Member, film star, artist, and poet, passed away at Bellevue Hospital this weekend, taken by cancer. From GalleristNY-- Rene Ricard, the Massachussets-born artist...

Cathy Park Hong answered the Proust Questionnaire for the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. "Hers is a universe flitting between ideal and corruption, urbane and cowboy," writes Yeow Kai Chai. Her...

Congratulations to Etel Adnan who has been named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Si parlez vous Français, cliquez ici ou ici maintenant!