The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology was born at the beginning of the OWS Movement. Following up from last Fall, how has the OWS Poetry Anthology progressed since it started eight months ago?...

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At 3:07am Stephen Boyer texted, "The parks been violently raided, people have been beaten and tear gassed." I headed over to Liberty Plaza ten minutes later. Walking down Broadway, I couldn't walk any further towards the plaza because the police barricaded it all the...

In the middle of the night about 300 peaceful protesters were asleep in their tents on the grounds of Occupy Oakland when they were raided and evicted by 500-plus police as reported in Mercury News and other outlets including Occupy Oakland's very own The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette....

There's not only so many different cities and things in solidarity with OWS, but a growing poetry anthology. The poets and editors putting together the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology are Stephen Boyer (author of chapbook Ghosts from bentboybooks and contributor to the anthologies Madder Love: Queer...

Following up from last week with poet CAConrad at Occupy Wall Street, I sought out poets Debrah Morkun (author of Projection Machine From Blazevox and holds an MFA in Writing & Poetics from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University) along with Frank...

On Facebook, poet extraordinaire and teacher CAConrad stated he was heading to Occupy Wall Street. CAConrad is the author of The Book Of Frank and forthcoming A Beautiful Marsupial (both from Wave Books). He also hosts the poetry video blog Jupiter88. From Wall Street while in...

In Queens, NY, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 29 there will be a Fil Am gathering of writers, artists, and scholars hosted by Queens Poet Lore Paolo Javier and Bliss on Bliss Art Projects visual artist/printmaker Ged Merino. I interviewed Paolo Javier about the event and people involved...

Ever wonder what'd it be like for an awesome actor like Bill Murray to read and judge your poetry? Think about it. This is the guy who made your heart melt in What About Bob?

This is the guy who you'd turn to after a bad break-up and watch...

British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy recently stated in The Guardian that, "The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of feeling in language -- it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is." This also takes a different turn....

Since the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest surviving work of literature from 3rd millennium B.C.) writ on clay tablets and papyrus, and onward to the Book Of Sibyls (the eldest surviving remnant of a medieval poem printed before the Gutenberg Bible), it goes without saying that poets have never made...