Two Iranian poets, Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi, have been sentenced to jail time and 99 lashes for shaking hands with members of the opposite sex, the Associated Press reports.
Twitter plans to lay off eight percent of its workforce, the bearded Machiavellian at its helm announced in a memo to the company today. Those 336 workers who will be going home without their jobs can at least take comfort in the fact that when Jack Dorsey cut them loose, Jack didn’t beat around the bush. Jack gave it…
Aaron Rushing was a freshman then. He had dark skin and cottony dreads that mostly covered his eyes, and sometimes his mouth—although not enough to conceal his gentle and knowing smile. His eyes were puppy-doggish, steady. Later I would learn he was a virtuoso on the guitar and a rockstar on stage, but that afternoon…
I am hardly ever a
Professor Chill, a cool-ass nickname I bestowed upon Speed star Keanu Reeves, participated in a Reddit AMA on Monday morning that, among other things, revealed him to be a thoughtful spinner of words. Childhood, George Carlin, breakfast—nothing is too mundane for Reeves to weave. The title of his first poetry…
(For Mike Brown, Lennon Lacy, Eric Garner, Renisha McBride, and so on, and so on ...)
Last week, Valerie Macon became the poet laureate of North Carolina. Valerie Macon is a disability claims processor with no major publications who was picked singlehandedly by the governor. And you still can't get the slush-pile intern at Copper Canyon Press to answer your goddamn emails.
National Poetry Month is now in the books. You probably didn't even celebrate. That's okay: Take a minute now to bask in the laconic rhythmic brilliance of this six-year-old kid who wrote some beautiful zen shit that you can't even fathom penning.
2013: The year the poets all plagiarized each other, like craaaaaazy for serious.
You passed on long before anyone informed you—
A majority minority, clinging to your faith in the good old order,
Until that Intro to Mass Communications lady spoiled it all!
Thanksgiving Eve had come again,
Outside a blustery chill.
A tiny boy of six years old,
Came crashing down the hill.
The leaves did scatter, brown and orange.
How fearsome was the sight:
Of Franklin Tom, the Turkey Beast,
Screeching in the night.
Today, we're going to talk about whether the internet is Good or Bad for society.
What happens when the garbled datastream of a fax machine is transcribed by one of those increasingly popular voice-to-text services? Web developer E.J. Brennan says this is what was produced when a fax machine called his number and left a voicemail on Twilio, which offers automatic transcription service.
Myrtle Beach Police Officer William Heine may have written the best arrest report of all time after he arrested 22-year-olds Shaina Leigh Zarko and Brittany Michelle Eisman at The Aquarius, a "family hotel".
Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet awarded the Nobel prize in 1995, died on Friday morning in Dublin hospital. He was 74.
A supervisor at a white-shoe law firm accused of sexually harassing one of his employees allegedly sent the woman laminated, illustrated erotic poems with lines like, “I enjoy you so. Your thick legs and all of the voluptuous plumpness that accents your womanhood."
Taking the saying "I'd give my left testicle" to its illogical conclusion, veteran poet Raffael Medina Brochero has offered to give both of his testicles in exchange for money to fund his upcoming European tour.
East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser is currently the subject of a discrimination suit that stems from a long-term extramarital affair he was having with his research assistant. But things weren't always so bleak for the high-minded Bowser. During the affair, he would write the assistant, Corletta Hicks, romantic poetry…
The ongoing evolution of former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic into the world's best blogger is the greatest thing going in American letters.
