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Mary Ruefle talking to Ryan Van Winkle at Scottish Poetry Library! Yes, check out this great interview, begging with a reading of Ruefle's "Goodnight Irene."

Members of the caravan of contraband books. We've mentioned the work of Librotraficante in the recent past, specifically, their caravan of contraband books and their pop-up libraries. Now, the good folks...

As we prepare for the long, homebound winter months and set up automatic pizza delivery, we at Harriet HQ are collecting reading material so that we may all remain cerebrally...

The City of Los Angeles has announced plans to create a Poet Laureate position. Who oh who will it be? Nomination guidelines and deadlines have been announced for all interested...

Natasha Trethewey’s latest collection, Thrall, claims the top spot on this week’s contemporary best-seller list. The entry of the current Poet Laureate in the top five has disrupted a delicate...

God bless the folks at Open Culture for finding this gem. In this video, an older Charles Bukowski reminisces about a particularly bad hangover. "Over here was the hotel, where the...

Here in Chicago, a lot of us have headed to the library during the past few weeks, returning books that were weeks, months or (gasp!) years overdue. Today is the...

In an interview at the New York Times, Joyce Carol Oates was asked: "What book did you feel you were supposed to like, and didn’t? Do you remember the last...

The saga of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum continues. From the second of a three-part series in the Baltimore Post-Examiner: When the city excised its funding for Edgar Alan...

The folks at Funny Or Die offer up yet another piece of funny, entertaining I-should-be-working-but-I'll-read-this-anyway material. They write: Jewel is best known for singing twee folk songs about her feelings. Charles...