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Here come the first of one of our favorite genres: the year-end wrap up. The Volta presents "Best of 2013" lists from John Keene, Noah Eli Gordon, Amaranth Borsuk, Kazim...

Is it time for the new critical genre of blurb review? Timothy Liu takes stock at Coldfront: Shall we talk about blurbs? Is it crass to critique a well-meant compliment?...

This is groundbreaking news for the deep poetry freaks who have been fans of Wallace Berman's foundational poetry and art journal Semina, which ran from 1955-1964, and which (according to...

A new editor takes the reins of Princeton University Press's Series of Contemporary Poets: poet, critic, and MacArthur Fellow Susan Stewart. Upon her appointment, Stewart said: “At this moment, when...

1994. You were supposed to be a visual artist or a musician but somewhere you ended up here.  Hanging upside down in a NYC train. Carhartt overalls and PNB Nation...

We're into these new optics from Jared Stanley's Evening Will Come essay (from the December issue), "The Phoropter." Stanley's initially referring to the optometrist machine, but gets allegorical (whynot!): Some poems...

Russian poet, translator, and foremost civil rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya has died at the age of 77 in her Paris home, reports The New York Times. Carcanet reprinted her Selected...

I have to preface my choices for the “best poetry books of 2013” with a caveat: I know the people who wrote these books, and I like them very much....

Time profiles Murad Subay and other Yemeni activists who are taking to graffiti to express their poetry and statements of discontent about twelve problems currently facing the people of Yemen,...

We're still saddened by the loss of Wanda Coleman. Today, though, we were thrilled to hear news of a new documentary in the works featuring a full-length interview with Wanda...