Posts by Catherine Blauvelt

David Berman's book of poems, Actual Air, is the type of collection that can travel with someone for decades - to new cities, new homes, new shelves - just as it has for this author.

Where does a poem end? How does a book begin? Writer Magdalena Zurawski helps answer these questions and shares the list of books currently sitting on her own shelf.

If you appreciate poetry, experimental nonfiction, and performance texts, see some of the 1,000 items part of the Ugly Duckling Presse collection, starting Tuesday, May 28 at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

Celebrate our feline friends by purr-using a recent addition to our periodical collection, a bi-annual magazine called PUSS PUSS.

In this interview with the founder and co-editor of Catenary Press, we discover a thriving literary community beyond the big publishing houses.

With the passing of poet John Ashbery, we have been reflecting on where we've found him in the collection—not just as author, but as translator, editor, interviewee, blurb writer, and even lyricist.

The New York Public Library recently acquired the chapbook series After Hours Ltd. Designed and curated by poet Eric Amlings, we reached out to Eric to learn more about the series.

Last April, we traveled down Library Way to get to Grand Central Station, where Poetry in Motion was staging an event called The Poet Is In. New York City's finest poets, including Ricardo Maldonado, Timothy Donnelly, and Dorothea Lasky sat behind typewriters in Vanderbilt Hall, awaiting their muses: the public.

Last month, a class from Laguardia Community College stopped by the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to get some inspiration for The Lit, a student-run journal of writing and art. We pulled many items to spark their creativity.