"Poets" Blogs & Blog Posts

Florida death row inmate and accomplished poet Stephen Todd Booker, 69, was awaiting execution for a 1977 murder when he unexpectedly died ahead of schedule. According to an autopsy report, Booker overdosed on fentanyl. He was found slumped over in h...

If you love the behind-the-scenes aspect of the NFL with trades and free agency, you’ll love this. People often wonder how trade rumors get started, and if you’re one of them, DeAndre Hopkins gave a crash course on how to light the match that ign...

Unlike Davante Adams, DeAndre Hopkins has had enough. Following a tumultuous year on the Arizona Cardinals that he’d probably prefer to expunge from his record, Hopkins wants a fresh start. This offseason, Arizona’s All-Pro is expected to demand...

bell hooks—the pioneering feminist poet, critic, activist, and educator—has died at age 69. hooks wrote several dozen impactful books, from her first poetry collection And There We Wept in 1978 to the highly influential Ain't I a Woman? Black Wom...

You know what, objectively I think, is not punk? Substack. You know who is very punk? Patti Smith. And so, by the transitive property, has Smith conferred some amount of punk status onto Substack by joining? Hm. Probably not. Read more...

Enjoy the unique comedy stylings of Leonard Cohen! He's quite funny although I keep waiting for him to break into song or, at the very least, do an impression of Dustin Hoffman. The clip is included in the 1965 documentary Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr.

Esteemed Beat poet Michael McClure has died of complications from a stroke he suffered last year. He was 87 years old. A key figure in the 1950s San Francisco scene that formed around Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin's City Lights Bookstore, Mc...