Evening links.

• The world's first living poem.
• At Flavorwire: Conspiracy theories about famous literary characters. (Although I don't see what is conspiracy-like about most of them. THEY'RE MOSTLY JUST THEORIES, is what I'm saying.)
• At the Atlantic: A Literary Tour of Historical Y.A. (There's going to be a sequel to Venom? Yecch.)
• At Yankee Magazine: 5 Best Used Bookstores in New England.
• When you read this next headline, please picture your local library offering this program: Library turns to pole dancing to entice new readers. You're welcome.
• At Mitali's Fire Escape: Children's/YA Book Awards: A Demographic Survey.
• Bookstores in Brazil have been ordered to be sure that 50 Shades of Grey is out of the reach of minors.
• Coming this fall: the Emily Dickinson Archive.
• At the Guardian: 2012 British Science Fiction awards finalists revealed.