Greg Kot’s happy take on the music industry’s apparent apocalypse

There must be something in the initials. The American poet C.D. Wright and the Canadian poet A.F. Moritz are both $50,000 richer today, following the award ceremony of this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize, held at a lovely Mexican-themed gala dinner and dance...

Scott Griffin, Canadian captain of industry and noted philanthropist, created The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry after a dinner party, attended by Michael Ondaatje and David Young, during which the guests lamented the decline of poetry’s place in...

A rap session on summer short-fiction collections: John Goldbach's Selected Blackouts and Vanishing by Deborah Willis

A round-up of recent, small-press verse titles featuring Carolyn Smart, Mathew Tierney and Patrick Woodcock

Inside and outside the music with BSS friend/biographer Stuart Berman