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Barnett Newman: “The Stations of the Cross.” Israeli settlers are apparently entering the grounds of the Temple Mount and climbing on top of the structure of the Dome of the...

Lorca, Micah and Sunnylyn, photo by Matt Gonzalez We're grateful to Guillermo Parra and the Best American Poetry blog for highlighting the great work (poetry and publishing) of Sunnylyn Thibodeaux...

It's pretty great that The New York Times's Artsbeat continues to profile small-poetry presses. This month, Dana Jennings talks to Chris Fishbach of Coffee House Press, publishers, notably, of Akilah...

Looks to be a good one! Adam Fitzgerald presents this wonderfully astute micro-review of Cunt Norton to readers of The American Reader. (Yes! That's you!) What happens when the Norton...

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has purchased wildly popular poet, Billy Collins's archive. The archive includes doodles, correspondences, and childhood writing. For more about...

Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde, by Peter Quartermain. University of Alabama Press. $39.95. Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry, edited by Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin. University of...

At BOMBLOG: Artist Jason Dodge talked with poet Caroline Knox, whose eighth book, Flemish, came out from Wave Books in 2013. Their conversation circles the visual mind, Knox's reading life,...

You have only 4 days left to hear Jeremy Irons read T.S. Eliot's masterpiece Four Quartets! From BBC Radio 4: Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as...

Warping back into the past (last week), Will Vincent reviews Andrew Zawacki's latest collection Videotape—and oh boy what a riveting read it is (book and review both). Vincent situates Videotape...

The New York Times reports on Amiri Baraka's funeral, which took place this weekend at Newark Symphony Hall. The service was lead by Danny Glover, who was influenced by Baraka...