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It's finally here! Artist (and International Art English expert) David Levine, poet Christian Hawkey--author of, most recently, the great Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012)--and composer Joe Liebes have been working...

The Believer Poets' Bookshelves series has struck gold this time (or should we say, Bakelite!). Just up are lovely photographs of Dorothea Lasky's creativity room and shelving. Color color color....

If you're heading down to Los Angeles's Central Library this Saturday, you won't want to miss the tribute held in honor of Wanda Coleman who died late last year. From...

We are saddened by the news today of the death of poet and activist Juan Gelman, who was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 2007. The Guardian reports: Juan Gelman, the celebrated...

Apple + Poetry? Now that's our kind of orientation! Maybe we will show up for first period after all! In 11 days, Apple’s Macintosh computer will turn 30 years old....

Ink drawing by Liz Morrison. Thinking about the long winters of my childhood in the Canadian North reminds me of how much we loved the summers, spent every minute on...

Congratulations Sinéad Morrissey! From The Telegraph: Belfast's inaugural poet laureate, Sinéad Morrissey, has won this year's TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. It is the fourth time that she has been shortlisted...

One of our favorite poetry publishers, the University of California Press, is doing us all a solid by making 700 e-books available for FREE! Open Culture reports on this massively...

Lynn Xu's debut collection, Debts & Lessons, is reviewed by the trusty rob mclennan at Galatea Resurrects. In it, "Xu composes poems of heartfelt, gentle knowing and small complexities unfurled,...

At The Nation, Ange Mlinko weighs in on Emily Dickinson's appearances in archives, and on Jen Bervin and Marta Werner's Gorgeous Nothings. From The Nation-- I can’t quite get past...