coronavirus Someone made Found Poetry out of all the emails they've received about COVID-19 Thom Dunn

poetry Watch Leonard Cohen read "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward" (1965) David Pescovitz

poems The Lucky Penny Press will put poems on pressed pennies Rusty Blazenhoff

books Starlings: razor-sharp stories and poems from Jo Walton Cory Doctorow

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new york city Legendary East Village corner store, Gem Spa, closes its doors Gareth Branwyn

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

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happy mutants Check out Money Mark's fantastic daily musical experiments! David Pescovitz

social distancing Tag yourself on this social distancing D&D alignment chart Thom Dunn

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

music Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose David Pescovitz

happy mutants Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford's books are out of print, they're coming back Cory Doctorow

Spoken Word with Electronics My Unfinished Sound Project with David Berman (Hear: "Governors on Sominex", "The Moon", and "My Life at Home During Banking Hours") Ethan Persoff

jellicle cats come one come all I love TS Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Weber but the 'Cats' trailer scares me Jason Weisberger

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

music Video for Patti Smith's gorgeous tribute to avant-garde poet/dramatist Antonin Artaud David Pescovitz

books Gollancz has published its first anthology of South Asian Science Fiction Cory Doctorow

poets 10-year-old writes brilliant poem about dyslexia and it goes viral Carla Sinclair