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

Technology Researchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930 Ellsworth Toohey

music Springsteen covers Pogues classic on new MacGowan tribute album Séamus Bellamy

politics Dial-A-Poem is back, with the revolutionary poetry we all need right now Jennifer Sandlin

politics Charlie Kirk called Democrats "maggots, vermin, and swine." Many plan to honor him in Congress. Rob Beschizza

art NYC taxi photographer captures city's 1980s soul in backseat portraits Ellsworth Toohey

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