After President Obama's inaugural address, Blanco delivered his original poem "One Today" before the Washington Mall. You should watch (and read) the whole thing.
Your typical literary reading is not a thing that tends to lead to physical fights and broken glasses. But at last night's Vol. 1 Brooklyn, what was shaping up to be a harmonious meeting of literary minds turned into something a bit more dramatic.
@Horse_ebooks, the inexplicably famous spambot that won the Internet with its nonsensical verbal juxtapositions and random observations (if that's even the right word), has been called poetic before, but one writer is taking the account's "poetry" seriously.
Today in books: Elmore Leonard's new book comes out Tuesday, NPR picks the one poetry collection you need to buy this year, and Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln is going to be a National Geographic documentary.
Today in books: A six-course Salman Rushdie-themed dinner could be yours for less than $100, poetry's tricky racial politics, and Nielsen BookScan announces the best-selling titles of 2011.
The Players: Helen Vendler, author and one of the nation's leading critics of American Poetry; Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate who's in charge of editing the expansive The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
It seems there's a New York poets group chiefly populated by young attractive gay men (and their rich older benefactors) looking to get it on. Alas, you're not invited.
We respect and value the social media editors who share the links that make our jobs easier. But sometimes we have no idea what they're talking about. So after a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorites.
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