Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium -- the internet.

Edward Vidaurre’s “Instructions” reminds us of the games we play with our minds to get through hard times, laddering down — then conjuring amends — to calm our own restlessness. His jazzy rhythms and ...

And you shall make its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels and its sprinkling basins and its flesh hooks and its scoops; you shall make all its implements of copper. ~Exodus 27:3 I appreciate a ...

Hieu Minh Nguyen‘s poems travel through time. Nguyen, a Minneapolis-based poet who writes on race, queerness and history, dove into the past with “White Boy Time Machine: Instruction Manual.” The ...

"The New Book" collects the late poet's final thoughts, revealing "even more of who she always was" as her health declined ...