We are sad to tell you that Geoff Stevens, poet, editor, artist and, to the end, his own man, died peacefully in his sleep at 3.06 a.m. on February 2, 2012.
Geoff Stevens was born …

Start Here: How to Get Your Book Published

It’s the most frequently asked question I receive: How do I get my book published?
Unfortunately, when I hear this question, I know I’m dealing with someone who is …

Not Your Parents’ Poems: A 2012 Poetry Preview
by Craig Morgan Teicher
I can’t tell you how the 2012 presidential election is going to turn out, nor can I say for certain whether The Office will outlast …

Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
THERE is a good chance that you have read something published by Jonathan Galassi. One of the wunderkinds of the New York editing and publishing …

Scottish stone holds key to Holy Grail of Arthurian legend, claims historian
KING Arthur could be buried in the Scottish Borders, according to an amateur historian.
Literary archaeologist Damian Bullen, 35, says the famous 5th century king’s …

Poets may quickly fall in love with their iPhones and iPads through a number of fantastic apps. What kind of apps are there? Well, there are apps for reading poetry, writing poetry, jotting down snippets …

Best poetry books of 2011
“Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels’’
by Kevin Young (Knopf)
A good epic poem is hard to come by these days, and it’s not just because of our kitten-like attention spans that …

George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was the proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. He was a contemporary of such Beat poets as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Despite …

Goodbye Serenity
by Charles Simic
I’m having trouble deciding whether I understand the world better now that I’m in my seventies than I did when I was younger, or whether I’m becoming more and more clueless every …

Kurt Vonnegut’s Son Disputes New Biography
Kurt Vonnegut finally got his first major biography recently, and so far everybody who’s reviewed it has been shocked by one thing: just how bitter Vonnegut was, in his last …

iheart poetics is an iPhone app for creating and sharing interactive visual poems that merge text and imagery as one.
Take a picture, and then write anything you feel, whether a poem, one word or a …

The Sea is my Brother to be published by Penguin.
The American beat generation author Jack Kerouac is said to have spent just eight days on active service in the US merchant marines on board the …

What is memoir in poetry? We read prose memoirs and see how lives are stretched taut around themes: a chronology of water, a debilitating illness, a drug addiction, a nomadic childhood, a strange religion, insomnia-driven …

Published by New York’s Maecenas Press-Random House in 1969 and distributed as their book of the month, the volume went on to become one of the most sought-after Dalí suites of all time. It contains …

This past week at UC Berkeley, several thousand students, faculty, and employees of the university came together to protest a proposed 81% tuition hike, increased privatization of the UC system, the troubling conflicts of interest …

You were recently named America’s poet laureate. What has been most surprising about the gig?
How much attention it’s gotten. People like my doctor or the guy who sells me wine or the people in my …

Beloved poet Billy Collins is coming to PlayhouseSquare on Tues., Nov. 8th 2011 @ 7:30 p.m. and the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation is offering the Cleveland poetry community a discount to see him speak. …

When You’re Strange.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think the Doors are a hokey caricature of male rock stardom and those who think they’re, you know, shamans. The Doors, who …

Debris
What lawyers can learn from poets.
by J. Boyle
Law is considered a scholarly profession, so we lawyers consider ourselves scholars. Worse, those of us who concentrate on litigating trials and appeals consider ourselves polymaths. A litigator’s …

LACMA will screen six ghoulish classics back-to-back, all starring Vincent Price in honor of his centenary. Starting with Andre de Doth’s House of Wax, in which Price plays an anguished sculptor with a ghastly secret, Price cemented his stature as a fixture of the macabre with Kurt Neumann’s still chilling The Fly.

Sylvia Plath drawings go on exhibit.
by Frieda Hughes
On 2 November, an exhibition of my mother Sylvia Plath’s pen- and-ink drawings opens at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street in London. These pictures were given to …

Emily Dickinson, according to this post from the NY Times blog, was quite the accomplished baker. Some of her cake recipes have endured and will come to life at a reception as part of an …

“I have to apologize to Jane Austen for involving her beloved Elizabeth in a murder investigation, but this fusion of my two enthusiasms — for the novels of Jane Austen and for writing detective stories — has given me great pleasure which I hope will be shared by my readers,” James said in a recent statement.

David Berman reads @ the Headquarters Library @ 6pm.

Nashville resident David Berman occupies a unique spot in American writing.  This is both truism and understatement.  His first and only book of poetry (Actual Air) was …

To know what Ernest Hemingway was really like, don’t read biographies of him. Read his letters. That’s the advice of Patrick Hemingway, the author’s surviving son. Soon readers will be able to take that advice, thanks to an ambitious publishing project, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.

“Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place,” a film by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood that opens on Friday, is an exercise in what they call “archival vérité.” It’s a documentary that uses …

Bruce Lee was an accomplished poet who not only wrote his own work but translated the work of others. He was a man who took poetry so seriously that he even wrote an entire movie …

Our nation, our species and our world are in crisis. The U.S. has an important role to play in the solution, but we can no longer afford to let corporate greed and corrupt politics set the policies of our nation.

CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is pleased to announce that poet, translator, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin will read in celebration of the 57th annual Poetry Day on Thursday, October 6. …

September 24−October 1, 2011
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and …