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In the fortunately less-trod universe of poetry-crime news, there's this just in from Russia: A man was stabbed to death because he preferred poetry over prose? Reports RIA Novosti: A former...

Mills College and the Public School (Oakland, CA) host "Cruel Work, the symposium" on February 8th. The symposium will feature talks and readings from Lauren Berlant, Dawn Lundy Martin, Jasper...

The body is a way of understanding the universe and so the universe must be a way of understanding the body. In either case, the deepest thinking about either is...

At Locus Solus, Andrew Epstein has excerpted a great piece--especially for those interested in Frank O'Hara's vision of friendship and his own work--on the relationship between Amiri Baraka and O'Hara,...

Paul Auster spoke recently at the Morgan Library in New York about his life in reading Edgar Allan Poe, framing this study with what he called "boy's literature." Poe, Borges,...

Oh goddess, this is best news of all time: "A chance inquiry by an unidentified collector" has resulted in the discovery of new poems from SAPPHO. As The Daily Beast...

Today we discovered the sad news of the death of José Emilio Pacheco, winner of the 2009 Cervantes Literature Prize. He was 74. The Huffington Post reports: Jose Emilio Pacheco, widely...

n+1's fifth small book, No Regrets: Three Discussions, hit the digital bookshelves this month as an e-book published by Emily Books. To expand on a few of the explorations therein,...

Haven't you heard? Alystyre Julian is directing a spectacular documentary about Outrider poet, Anne Waldman, with editing and production assistance from Lauren at Jailhouse Tapes. Julian has been working on...

Ugly Duckling Presse has two new ventures we must put our eyes to! In Brooklyn, they've opened up UDP's Pop-Up Bookstore: Third Factory, a temporary storefront at their HQ in...