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Do you want to hear some great poetry and take part in an equally great cause? If you're in Denver this Friday, you're in luck! Light House Writers Workshop is...

Yes, oh yes! Up-and-coming writers Ed Steck and Jeremy Hoevenaar celebrate new books this Saturday at Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery. That's right, this Saturday, November 2nd, American Books and UDP co-present...

Last month, we had the pleasure of publishing a special portfolio of "Poetry Not Written for Children that Children Might Nevertheless Enjoy," curated by Lemony Snicket. We liked the portfolio...

Achtung, those uninterested in committing mere persiflage at your next cocktailer: Some Ingeborg Bachmann scholars are in New York and are quite ready to discuss her work. Cf. Deutsche Haus,...

We all know that ancient Greek poetry was accompanied by music played on the lyre, but we haven't really known what those tunes sounded like. Until now! The Daily Mail...

Paul Krugman writes about poetry and Tom Standage's book Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2000 Years in the Op-Ed section of New York Times. A non-economics, non-policy post; I...

Almost immediately after the world learned the dismaying news that Lou Reed had died on Sunday at 71, the obituaries and tributes started to pour in—sharp assessments of his career,...

What poet could possibly make SF Weekly's The Write Stuff column even more resplendent than it already is? An interview with Alli Warren, of course! Warren talks with The Write...

This just in! The Bay Area Public School is hosting a series of free poetry classes taught by preeminent poets, throughout the month of November. That's right! SIX POETRY SEMINARS...

Ntozake Shange talks to the New York Times about her battle to continue to write after a series of strokes and the onset of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Author of...