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When you combine Edgar Allan Poe, Philip K. Dick, Emily Dickinson, add a dash of schizophrenia, and let Sonic Youth mix, you get John F. Kersey's "Sister" at The Rumpus....

From The Globe and Mail: Nobel prize-winning German author Gunter Grass, declared persona non-grata by Israel over a poem saying it threatened world peace, has published another work critical of the...

AGNI Online's Benjamin Landry reviews a coupla books, sinking into Darcie Dennigan's Madame X (Canarium, 2012) and We Don’t Know We Don’t Know by Nick Lantz (Graywolf, 2010). Landry begins...

We were sad to hear of Russian poet and translator Arkadii Dragomoshchenko passing. Now, we hear this from Ugly Duckling Presse: Fri Oct 19, 7:00 PM An Evening in Memory of Arkadii...

Head on over to the Poetry Society's website for this roundtable on Latino/a poetry, featuring a discussion between Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Lorena Duarte, and Rigoberto González, who are all slated to...

The Rumpus recommends Anna Moschovakis’s poetry collection, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, dwelling on her themes of choice in the modern world: We are brought back to the...

And it's set to music by the "Chariots of Fire" dude! From Open Culture: This video combines three things that make me happy: the voice of Sean Connery, the music of...

Perhaps we spend too much time in our luxurious Ronan-designed HQ. We’ve certainly been accused to dwelling too long in the theoretical ivory tower of academe. But between the two,...

Harper's writer Kevin Baker noticed something about presidential candidate Mitt Romney that other political journalists may have overlooked: "a literary current in Mitt Romney’s seemingly mindless ramblings—a stream-of-consciousness that reflects,...

Today and tomorrow, we're getting into a contemplative mood to make the Sunday deadline for the Black Heart Haiku Contest. After all, we contemplate best on a deadline! Here's the...