Jazz legend will give lectures on 'the wisdom of Miles Davis' and 'Buddhism and creativity' during two-month tenure, writes Imogen Tilden.

Paul Muldoon has been The New Yorker’s poetry editor since 2007. He is also the host of the new New Yorker Poetry Podcast. The first episode features Philip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate. Levine reads and discusses with Muldoon a poem by Ellen Bass, as well as one of his own works. Here, Muldoon explains about what he hopes to achieve with this podcast, followed by the first episode in its entirety. You can subscribe to the New Yorker Poetry Podcast in the iTunes store..

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In 'Factory of Literature', (1926) Platonov writes about the method of composition he first used in the story 'Antisexus', (1925-26) and probably used in the composition of his later masterpieces. 'Factory of Literature' proposes a ...

httpv://youtu.be/PciJ2lDw9E8 I was lucky enough to be living in Chicago when Marc Smith's Poetry Slam movement became a thing. What fun it was to hit the.

Finding inspiration from the ancients, Stanford philosopher Christopher Bobonich underscores the moral consequences of reflecting upon bad means to good ends.

One of the choicest literary feuds that Rachel Arons lit on in The New Yorker's casualty report was the multi-round faceoff between Tom Scocca and BuzzFeed.

Literary critics still seem to polarise literature in the same way they have for hundreds of years: 'genre fiction' versus 'literary fiction'.

The University of Chicago will host a special free taping of the popular NPR news quiz Wait, Wait… Don't Tell Me! for UChicago students and the general public. The show will present its first-ever recording on campus at ...

The high-tech poetry competition, which explored how computer code can be read as poetic language, is accepting submissions for the next competition.