News: November 20, 2009
Belgium bedazzled by the haiku of “Mr. Europe.”
“Yes, in fact, it is wack.”: Taking slam scoring to task.
Stefan Brecht, poet and son of Bertolt, is dead.
ARTICLES
The Cranberry Cantos
by The Editors
Thanksgiving poems for family and friends.
Mina Loy: “Lunar Baedeker”
by Jessica Burstein
The poet navigates the unknown world.
Washington, DC, Poetry Tour
by The Editors
Our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets.
Poetry and Project Runway
by Stephen Burt
Should book critics take their cues from Tim Gunn?
Anne Bradstreet: “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
by Emily Warn
Anne Bradstreet became a cultural icon for speaking out. Anne Hutchinson was banished.
What Man Has Made of Man
from Poetry magazine
by A. F. Moritz
Can poetry reconnect the individual and society?
James Schuyler in the Spotlight
by Eric Ziegenhagen
A New York School poet with a flair for the dramatic.
BY CATEGORY
NEWLY ADDED POETS
Audio & Podcasts
Poetry Lectures
Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler discusses the poet Robert Lowell. LISTEN »
Poetry Off the Shelf
The Nature of Political Power
Robert Lowell's "July in Washington" puts America in a vegetable context. LISTEN »
Essential American Poets
James Tate: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet James Tate, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1976. LISTEN »
IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009
Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.
FEATURED PROSE
A.E. Stallings
Athens: Peripatetic Fragments
Athenians cannot be proud, the joke goes. Because if their nose is in the air, they won’t see the potholes under their feet. The sidewalk is the most dangerous place to walk: watch out for motorbikes, cars backing up, tree stumps, broken pavement, sunken entrances, marble slick as ice, stray dogs, other people who aren’t looking up.
CHICAGO EVENTS
Poetry Off the Shelf: Reginald Gibbons
Oidipous Tyrannos: Oedipus the King
Thu, December 3rd, 6:00 pm
National Hellenic Museum
801 West Adams Street, 4th Floor
Free admission
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