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"Poetry . . . not in the business of believing." The New Republic's Alice Robb gets real with Joyce Carol Oates, taking the novelist to task for her portrayal of...

Bonniest of Anniversaries to our 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Hayden, and ... to ... John Keats. Both have been extremely influential. Pierre Joris did us the favorable remind of negative...

If you haven't found your way to the Rumpus this Halloween afternoon, you should make your way over now! David Hernandez has turned the good doctor (Bill Williams) into a...

Our friends at BlazeVox, as promised last week here, bring you something terrifying for Halloween: Edgar Allan Poe! Kent Johnson! Conceptual Poetry (ahhhh)!! Without further ado, BlazeVox...

After reading this year's Poetry Crush run-down, you'll likely want to call SOMEBODY your boo. Mina Loy, for example. 3) Mina Loy by Todd Colby I don’t know that I’d actually...

Amazon dropped a digital newsbomb yesterday with the announcement of a new Kindle-only weekly publication they're calling Day One. It's all about this: Amazon Publishing today announced Day One, a weekly...

Though the format is excruciatingly stylish, we'd recommend attempting to read this story at The Aesthete by Roxane Gay on Sylvia Plath's life in New York, where she worked in...

Over at Salon, Thomas Sayers Ellis discusses the influence Maya Angelou has had on his writing and his esteem for her as a cultural figure. Ellis begins by describing his...

HTML Giant's Rauan Klassnik brings Seattle-based writer, Amber Nelson, into the Author Spotlight. Rauan: When we chatted you used the word “Feminist” a few times. “Feminist,” a word...

It was the late singer-songwriter Warren Zevon who once quipped that when we buy books we think we’re buying the time to read them. I know that’s true of me...