prisons Florida poet on death row died ahead of schedule from a fentanyl overdose… somehow David Pescovitz

poetry bell hooks, pioneering feminist poet and activist, RIP David Pescovitz

music Watch Leonard Cohen do stand-up comedy David Pescovitz

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

apps Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz

music Patti Smith has a new memoir on the way David Pescovitz

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

science fiction New online short class about one of Philip K. Dick's nuttiest novels David Pescovitz

christian heritage sites The most incredible sculpture I've ever seen: The Chronicle of Georgia Natalie Dressed

writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed

poetry A documentary on John Cooper Clarke, the poet laureate of punk Natalie Dressed

poetry Telepoem Booths let you dial a poem in vintage phone booths Jennifer Sandlin

photography The history of Priscilla, 1969, the iconic image from Dinosaur, Jr.'s Green Mind Jennifer Sandlin

Culture El Pochcast, Talking to Houseplants, and the podcast worlds of Rodrigo Nuñez Elías Villoro

censorship Twitter blocks more than a hundred accounts, including journalists, poets and members of parliament, to please government of India Rob Beschizza

rap The early gospel quartet that influenced rap Rusty Blazenhoff

africa New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists Thom Dunn

music The Music of East meets West: Üsküdar neighborhood, Istanbul  Katherine Hreib

books "Where do they go?" is an accessible and tender children's book about death Elías Villoro

books Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve" Elías Villoro