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The Guardian says Christopher Reid's latest book, Nonsense, is "like being inside a theatre – a wonderful, oddball auditorium with a cast composed largely of Reid lookalikes." The author praises...

Check out this post at Open Culture, where J.R.R. Tolkien reads poems from The Fellowship of the Ring in both English and Elvish. From the site: In my book Cate Blanchett...

Wow this is awesome. Check this out, from The Tennessean: Two men sit in a room in Atlanta, their voices recorded on a scratchy reel-to-reel audiotape. “All right, sir, may I just...

In non-useless news, MIT Press has just published what is no doubt to be a primary source for all things 'Pataphysics, in Andrew Hugill's 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide. From the...

We are saddened to learn that Louis Simpson is dead at 89. Simpson, who had several poems published in Poetry magazine, is remembered by The New York Times as "poet...

From Letters of Note: A wise and inspiring letter from Ted Hughes to his 24-year-old son, Nicholas. Early in the letter, Hughes describes his life in America with his wife,...

Don't stop us if you've heard this one already. Over the weekend, The New York Times announced the amazing discovery by a Columbia graduate student and his advisor of an...

Poet Zachary Pace made this video for Dorothea Lasky's poem "Why Go in Cars" from her forthcoming (and currently on sale) collection, Thunderbird. http://youtu.be/pODVfrvrOd8

From Amnesty International's website: Adnan Latif died at Guantánamo on Saturday, after being held over 10 years without charge—despite a judge’s order that he be released. Latif protested his treatment with a...

UK Poet and professor Keston Sutherland offers a rich consideration of John Wieners for the newest issue of World Picture: "No poet in English was ever so destitute of a...