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When you wrote a letter—out by hand—you pressed your pen into the page, you hoped some energy into it. You folded it, you put it in an envelope, you sealed...

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has acquired Gwendolyn Brooks's archive! Highlights from the archive include spiral-bound notebooks...

Trisha Low. Photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald One to watch at Montevidayo: The poets featured in the New York Daily News profile we pointed to have responded to some of the...

Democracy Now! reports on Wednesday’s inauguration for Mayor Bill de Blasio by focusing on Youth Poet Laureate Ramya Ramana's inaugural poem. A rough transcript of the poem reads: RAMYA RAMANA: A...

They've done it again! We're in awe after reading Travis Nichols's superb interview with poet and trailblazer, Dorothea Lasky, just published at Huffington Post. There are almost 60 full-time performing arts...

Yes that's right: Please Bring Balloons—to THE STRAND! The NYC independent bookstore charted record sales this holiday season, of fiction, poetry, and who knows what else. Wow! Go team! Via...

The editors over at OmniVerse are bringing out the (living)dead for this month's issue that "features works revived from lost and out-of-print publications, curated by RJ Ingram." And what...

January is a month with two faces. In 1953 Yoko Ono wrote her first score, called SECRET PIECE. It consisted of one line of typescript: “Decide on the one note you...

That's libro, in Italian! The Italian government has unveiled a master plan for attracting foreign investment, and for some reason, it includes a tax deduction for people who buy books!...

We're into this list from the Boston Review, which collects (alphabetically) the online magazine's top-20 most-read poems published there this year. Includes Ben Fama, Jessica Laser, Ariana Reines, Alice Notley,...