CHEVELLE Announces Summer 2025 North American Tour With ASKING ALEXANDRIA And DEAD POET SOCIETY

CHEVELLE Announces Summer 2025 North American Tour With ASKING ALEXANDRIA And DEAD POET SOCIETY

American rock band CHEVELLE has announced its return to the stage with special guests ASKING ALEXANDRIA and DEAD POET SOCIETY. Produced by Live Nation, the 38-city tour kicks off on August 7 at Boeing Center […]

Nikki Giovanni, poet and civil rights activist, dies at 81

Nikki Giovanni, clad in academic robes and a hat, gestures with one hand as she recites a poem

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess of Black Poetry,” has died. She was 81. Giovanni died […]

Blue Note Records Announces Tone Poet Subscription Service

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Blue Note Records has announced the launch of the Tone Poet Society, a new subscription service dedicated to the legendary jazz label’s Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series. Shop the best of Blue Note’s Tone […]

How MJ Lenderman Became the Poet Laureate of Indie Rock

MJ Lenderman

  MJ Lenderman, photographed by Graham Tolbert There’s a particular addictive sensation had when listening to MJ Lenderman’s new album, Manning Fireworks, as you hear the 25-year-old singer-songwriter warbling nonchalantly over the twanging reverb of […]

Ashleah Gonzales Made Kendall Jenner a Literary it-Girl. Now, She’s a Published Poet.

Ashleah Gonzales

Photo courtesy of Ashleah Gonzales. Kendall Jenner reading Miranda July. Kendall Jenner reading Melissa Broder. Kendall Jenner reading Chelsea Hodson—on a yacht, in Miami, wearing an orange bikini that perfectly complements the purple cover of […]

USC poet, professor Jackie Wang discusses AI’s impact on writers

A woman with dark hair in a tank top and sheer sleeves stands in front of pink and teal items on shelves.

Two major forces, distinct but not unrelated, are causing turmoil for writers: massive labor struggles and accelerating advancements in artificial intelligence. On the labor front, streaming businesses like Netflix have robbed TV writers of residuals; […]