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Most of you could probably use a little poetry in your lives.  We've mashed our brains together and made a list of ten amazing queer ladysexy poets that you should check out right now, if you haven't already. More »
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According to the Daily Beast, the folks having the most sex are exactly the ones you'd expect: jazz lovers, poets, and drunk people. Or maybe they're simply the ones who are pretending to get the most action? More »
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National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton has died at the age of 73. Says her sister: "Everything touched her. Everyone mattered to her. She was such a loving person." Here, Clifton reads her poem, "Homage To My Hips." [BuffaloNews] More »
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Everything from the death of a husband to increasing alcohol dependency can be fixed by remodeling the kitchen! So thought Ladies Home Journal, anyway: here's a before-and-after of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's home. [NewYorker] More »
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It's easy to vilify Ted Hughes as the callous philanderer who broke Sylvia Plath's heart, had a suspiciously high number of suicidal wives, and went on write increasingly bombastic poetry. A somewhat different picture of Hughes, who died ten years ago, emerges from The Letters of Ted Hughes, which was just published. Papercuts runs the letter Hughes wrote to Plath's mother, Aurelia, after Sylvia's suicide, and its heartbreak has none of his poetry's remoteness. "Sylvia was one of the greatest truest spirits alive, and in her last months she became a great poet, and no other woman poet except Emily Dickinson can begin to be compared with her, and certainly no living American." Yes, "woman poet" and the dig at Americans, - he couldn't help it! - but still - you'll cry. It's always a revelation, too, to be reminded of what a loss letter-writing was for emotional expression! [NY Times] More »
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