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01.06.09: How Whitman turned Civil War horror into poetry.

01.06.09: Eunoia storms the UK.

01.06.09: Virginia Quarterly Review lists top books of 2008.

01.06.09: Nazim Hikmet, dead 45 years, officially Turkish again.

01.06.09: Shakespeare's Warwickshire church may close.

01.06.09: Beware: Darwish poem still inflames passions.

01.06.09: "We'll greet the rain together": Mary Karr on Tryfon Tolides.

01.06.09: Adam Foulds wins Costa Book Award.

01.06.09: The music of Paul Celan in Philly.

01.06.09: City poet, dumb poet.

01.05.09: Stunning urbanity gives way to stunned suburbanity: the New New York Poets.

01.05.09: Langston Hughes the struggle for civil rights.

01.05.09: Danish poet Inger Christensen is dead.

01.05.09: Pinter in Poet's Corner?

01.05.09: "The world's greatest and most lovable poet."

01.05.09: "I lived like a dog": Stone Mountain man tries to get his business together with poetry.

01.05.09: A look at the letters of Hughes, Lowell and Bishop.

01.05.09: The Seattle Poetry Chain, link by link.

01.05.09: Clayton Eshleman, Ypsi poet.

01.05.09: "Forget your footnotes on the old gentleman; dance around Mary": MLA sex.

12.30.08: "Less sexy, by far": Spicer in the NYT.

12.30.08: Ginsberg and Snyder: "A prickly, mutually respectful and totally asexual relationship."

12.30.08: W.S. Merwin on PBS.

12.30.08: FSG in need of a new "courtly lion" like Giroux.

12.30.08: Seamus Heaney on NPR.

12.30.08: Harold Pinter's later poetry pushed back against tyrants.

12.30.08: Days of wine and poetry in Norwich.

12.30.08: Can nature poetry merge with the world?

12.30.08: Eat, drink and be merry: Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.

12.29.08: "Hoodoo in the sleeping nook", Elizabeth Alexander at the podium.

12.29.08: Katy Lederer in the Indian Express.

12.29.08: Eulogy for a poetry lover in the NYTBR.

12.29.08: New Year's resolutions for Canadian poetry.

12.29.08: A look back at Frost and JFK.

12.29.08: Could Ginsberg and Kissinger naked on TV have ended Vietnam?

12.29.08: The wiseguy archness and savage aplomb of William Logan.

12.29.08: The Twin Cities Examiner's best poetry of 2008.

12.29.08: Dining with Pessoa in Lisbon.

12.23.08: Jack Spicer's open source advocacy and jolly hostility in the LA Times.

12.23.08: Rocker Ryan Adams tries verse, gets panned.

12.23.08: "Poetry is for funerals, it seems."

12.23.08: Angela Leighton offers tentative mood of hope.

12.23.08: "Poetry is merely honesty, and everyone has the potential for that."

12.23.08: Here comes everybody: Internet literacy, Auden, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.

12.22.08: Nabakov's best-loved Russian verse.

12.22.08: Jeanette Winterson on Forrest Gander in the NYTBR.

12.22.08: The poetry encyclopedia of Abu Dhabi.

12.22.08: UK poet Adrian Mitchell is dead at 76.

12.22.08: AP profile of Elizabeth Alexander.

12.22.08: Blagojevich calls on Kipling in time of crisis.

12.22.08: The SF Chronicle's best poetry of 2008.

12.22.08: Midnight poems at AuthorScoop.

12.22.08: Money and art find a way at the Poetry Brothel.

12.22.08: Brian Turner talks Iraq war poetry.

12.19.08: Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich answers corruption charges with poem.

12.19.08: Elizabeth Alexander's "challenge" (understatement of the year?).

12.19.08: Philip Larkin's Sunday sessions.

12.19.08: Jack Spicer's poetry for the Nation.

12.19.08: George Packer writes against Presidential poetry.

12.19.08: Bolaño's Romantic Dogs, dreams within dreams.

12.19.08: Graywolf has dibs on inaugural poem.

12.19.08: Gwendolyn Brooks in Chicago's literary underground.

12.19.08: "How did I trust thee?": Meltdown poetry on the HuffPo.

12.18.08: A profile of inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander.

12.18.08: The digital Whitman archive endlessly rocking.

12.18.08: W.S. Merwin on Fresh Air.

12.18.08: A Christmas poem in the WSJ.

12.18.08: "I was afflicted and afflicted you": Sharon Olds and Maureen N. McLane.

12.18.08: Poet drops "n" bomb at prep school, parents enraged.

12.18.08: Japan's punk rock robot poet.

12.17.08: Elizabeth Alexander picked as Obama's inaugural poet.

12.17.08: Proust poem to fetch big bucks at auction.

12.17.08: More Welsh protests of Patrick Jones.

12.17.08: Poverty, a broken neck, and now the BBC for Peter Street.

12.17.08: Seattlite wins TLS Poetry Competition.

12.17.08: Taking down Jerusalem, Beloved.

12.17.08: Denis Leary on rhythm and Bill Knott.

12.17.08: A crimson tide of slam poetry in Alabama.

12.17.08: Shaky Borders at point of no-return.

12.16.08: A cool two million for Poets & Writers.

12.16.08: Ashbery vs. Kessler in the TLS.

12.16.08: Jim Dine's "lackadaisical" poetry installation at the Getty.

12.16.08: If there's no world outside texts, then where are all the lit students going?

12.16.08: Twenty poetry questions for 2009.

12.16.08: Linton Kwesi Johnson is a "tap natch poet."

12.16.08: A preview of Dante's Inferno, the video game.

12.16.08: Poems for the Iraqi shoe-tosser.

12.16.08: Pennsylvania poet Michael Hoover agitates for Hanover culture.

12.16.08: Does editing poetry for kids qualify Caroline Kennedy for the Senate?

12.15.08: New Burns poems—and his STD—discovered.

12.15.08: "He draws a crucified arm, which oddly rouses him": Mariani on Hopkins.

12.15.08: "The perfumed sadness of silence" in Pierre Martory's poetry.

12.15.08: Saving Joe Purdy's Ontario home.

12.15.08: Roger Angell's holiday poetry greetings.

12.15.08: The Dharma Bum letters, collected.

12.15.08: Sharon Olds on the horrors of war.

12.15.08: Dream of a unified theory: Poets of both arts and sciences.

12.15.08: "And now—you've left for good": Lowell and Bishop on NPR.

12.15.08: Bikini-clad poets take polar bear dip after reading.

12.12.08: Like poetry, get ladies.

12.12.08: No pantoums for Maria Shriver forthcoming from Muske-Dukes.

12.12.08: Carol Houck Smith, editor of Kumin, Stern, Kunitz, Dove and others at Norton, is dead.

12.12.08: "Everything fits and is tidy": Prairie poetry in the Dakotas.

12.12.08: Survival is all in the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert.

12.12.08: Eulogy for Aussie poet Dorothy Porter.

12.12.08: Captain Collins, poet, is called back to Iraq.

12.12.08: "Humorous in intent and frequently risqué": A call for limericks.

12.12.08: Poets and writers agree: grammar is sexy.

12.11.08: Poets hope for inaugural spotlight.

12.11.08: Barney Rosset, still the "most dangerous man in publishing"?

12.11.08: New England College sues for stolen creative writing program.

12.11.08: Michael Gordon's 21st Century Emily Dickinson.

12.11.08: St. Louis Today picks the best poetry of 2008.

12.11.08: Claudia Emerson heads back home to Chatham.

12.11.08: Baltimore poet Moira Egan "both naughty and nice."

12.11.08: Hoping poetry readings (and Top 10 lists) never go out of style.

12.11.08: The Nation reviews PDF anthology of pirated poetry.

12.10.08: William Gibson's AGRIPPA restored.

12.10.08: Australian poet Dorothy Porter is dead at 54.

12.10.08: In praise of Thomas Merton.

12.10.08: The New Republic calls to bring back the Federal Writers Project.

12.10.08: Milton as British mascot.

12.10.08: An interview with Charles Simic.

12.10.08: Send in the clouds: Winter is the season for poetry.

12.10.08: "Not that Spicer is for the common reader. God forbid."

12.10.08: Nabokov's Russian translations to change your life.

12.10.08: More protests against Patrick Jones.

12.09.08: Today is John Milton's 400th birthday.

12.09.08: 2009 NEA Fellowships announced.

12.09.08: Finals for pan-Arab lit competition, Poet of Millions, begin.

12.09.08: In praise of poetry and poverty.

12.09.08: Birthday verse from Ask-a-Poet.

12.09.08: Brothel ad and Chinese poetry lost in German translation.

12.09.08: Nancy Pearl on Portland's B.T. Shaw.

12.09.08: Dale Smith on Philip Whalen.

12.08.08: The Collected John Ashbery: "A training guide for imaginative calisthenics."

12.08.08: The Lincoln-Obama connection? Novice verse.

12.08.08: Anne Carson and the "complicated marriage of music and text."

12.08.08: All aboard rail-inspired verse.

12.08.08: "No admission without poetry": Catholic group celebrates advent of Xmas poems.

12.08.08: Poetry readings at the White House?

12.08.08: Unsentimental Thomas Hardy remains timeless.

12.08.08: Alex Caldiero: poet of "many sensations," including bafflement.

12.08.08: Lost and found Dylan poems "fresh and arresting."



12.05.08: Jack Spicer's "hell of personal relations."

12.05.08: Ashbery rebuffs TLS.

12.05.08: Will there be an Obama-revived WPA?

12.05.08: PEN Oakland winners.

12.05.08: Publishers suffer Black Wednesday with layoffs, consolidation.

12.05.08: Delaware's Milton Fest celebrates ten years.

12.05.08: The poetry of Hans Arp in Strasbourg.

12.05.08: After careful consideration, no.

12.05.08: This weekend's indie and small press book fair in NYC.

12.04.08: Does identity trump poetry in UK laureate search?

12.04.08: Casting a critical eye on Walt Whitman's civil war.

12.04.08: Kay Ryan's Believe it or Not!

12.04.08: Poetry rehab in the Tuscon juvie.

12.04.08: The inner sanctum of Nashville's Bat Poet.

12.04.08: Healing and relief at poetry and grief workshop in Tacoma.

12.04.08: A Long Island poetry of spirits and oxygen.

12.04.08: James Franco and "The Feast of Stephen."

12.03.08: In defense of difficult poetry read aloud.

12.03.08: Katy Lederer, hedge fund laureate.

12.03.08: Queen's U honors Seamus Heaney.

12.03.08: Gwyneth Lewis on the health of poetry.

12.03.08: "Sylvia Plath Must Not Die" in Toronto.

12.03.08: Open house with Ohio's poet laureate.

12.03.08: Pinsky picks Fulke Greville as favorite obscurity.

12.03.08: Trying to keep some library collection's Google free.

12.03.08: Gender Gap: The NEA follows up its Artists in the Workforce study.

12.02.08: The "real mystery" of Slovene poetry in the US.

12.02.08: The Stranger asks: "Why does Seattle promote dumb, bad poetry?"

12.02.08: "Paradox and upended cliché": Brenda Wineapple's Emily Dickinson.

12.02.08: Five well-versed Irish women.

12.02.08: Poetry's rights and responsibilities in Wales.

12.02.08: Indianapolis International Airport's high windows.

12.02.08: A poem for the Pittsburgh Steelers: "Ode to the 'D.'"

12.01.08: An anthology for "the new 'F' word."

12.01.08: "Repetition flogs the theme": Ron Silliman reviewed.

12.01.08: New UK Poetry Society director sees verse as "national sport."

12.01.08: Seamus Heaney on Eminem, the bog, and duty.

12.01.08: "I preferred to be a fool": Ed Skoog in Seattle.

12.01.08: Barack Obama and activist-poet Frank Marshall Davis.

12.01.08: Paul Muldoon, state of the art: "Making sense is what's difficult."

12.01.08: Stanley Fish on Milton in prose.

12.01.08: Poetry by post at LACMA.

11.26.08: "Forget the marooned beatnik at the open mic": The Phoenix on Franz Wright and Rafael Campo.

11.26.08: Canada Council denies personal ties influenced award for poet.

11.26.08: Advice on jobs and wine-pairings at "Ask a Poet."

11.26.08: Houghton Mifflin, publisher of Donald Hall, Natasha Trethaway, and Mary Oliver, says no to new books.

11.26.08: Gayle Danley slams kids.

11.26.08: Marie Howe's capacity for violence.

11.26.08: Not "Strictly Come Rhyming": the Times on the next laureate choice.

11.26.08: Be warned: Andrew Motion gives advice to the next UK poet laureate.

11.25.08: "If you ever need a Walt, let me know": Whitman's ghost in Fort Greene.

11.25.08: Laureate Idol next year in the UK?

11.25.08: Stop, thief! New England poetry prof accused of stealing faculty.

11.25.08: Reginald Gibbons in the Chicago Tribune.

11.25.08: Dancing after the deluge: Paul Taylor takes on Rimbaud/Whitman.

11.25.08: Clive James' 'sayableness' in the LA Times.

11.25.08: Portraits of Youth Speaks poets in San Francisco.

11.25.08: Slam poetry as talk therapy in DC.

11.25.08: Terry Teachout on the the British Library's Spoken Word.

11.24.08: Cavafy "as good as great poetry gets."

11.24.08: Europeans in search of Dante crash massive digital library.

11.24.08: Solitudes crowded with loneliness: Harryette Mullen speaking on Bob Kaufman.

11.24.08: Hanover poets and the art of noticing.

11.24.08: "Try to praise the mutilated world": Mary Karr on Zagajewski.

11.24.08: The Dodge Poetry Festival, YouTube version.

11.24.08: Will there be an Obama arts explosion?

11.24.08: Coach House Press heyday revisited.

11.24.08: Total Recall: Californian has perfect memory, but not for poems.

11.21.08: One of the Big Three (tenors) to sing Pope's poetry.

11.21.08: Looking back on the Milton marathon at St. Olaf.

11.21.08: After the deluge: water poetry.

11.21.08: "As a culturally retarded 23 year old, I had had never heard of the legendary '60s Beat poet Allen Ginsberg."

11.21.08: Carnal the Cowboy Poet in Grand Junction.

11.21.08: Nation of immigrants, nation of poets in Minneapolis.

11.21.08: The trouble with poetry contests.

11.20.08: Revisiting Canterbury with a modern tongue.

11.20.08: The Christian Science Monitor on Doty's Fire to Fire.

11.20.08: Letters from four decades of the Beat movement.

11.20.08: Poetry and the "just barely nameable."

11.20.08: Kleinzhaler wins Lannan Foundation $150,000.

11.20.08: Mark Doty wins the National Book Award.

11.20.08: Kevin Hart's "Uh Oh Time."

11.20.08: Ani Difranco, terrified by "Verses."

11.19.08: Pasolini's poetry half in love with death.

11.19.08: The National Book Awards have Texas in their soul.

11.19.08: Remembering Donald Finkel.

11.19.08: Judge drops criminal investigation into Locra's killers.

11.19.08: Milton and Babar together at last in the Morgan Library.

11.19.08: Maya Angelou and Martina McBride.

11.19.08: Bellevue as Beat clubhouse.

11.19.08: M.I.T. asks: Have Homer and Shakespeare had their day?

11.18.08: Jack Spicer's uncomfortable music in Bookforum.

11.18.08: Interviewing W.H. Auden in the Michigan Quarterly.

11.18.08: Jordan Davis on Yusef Komunyakaa in the SF Chronicle.

11.18.08: Zbigniew Herbert has "the unpleasantness of great poetry."

11.18.08: "The poet of Dumbwoman's lane sallies forth": Paul McCartney at auction.

11.18.08: The poetry of urban Jakarta.

11.18.08: Doggerel for Muske-Dukes.

11.18.08: St. Louis poet Donald Finkel is dead.

11.18.08: Mallarmé, Hornick, and four Hindu poems for the Inscape Chamber Orchestra.

11.17.08: 1956 Gary Snyder recording found at Reed College.

11.17.08: "When gossip grows old, it becomes myth": the Letters of Ted Hughes.

11.17.08: Jeanette Winterson on T.S. Eliot and her tough teens.

11.17.08: The trouble with gum ingredients: Chicago Tribune imagines Billy Collins as ad man.

11.17.08: Lewis Hyde and poetry's "gift economy".

11.17.08: Not cowed by evangelicals, Wales' government invites "blasphemous" poet to read.

11.17.08: Mary Karr on Robert Bly's Kabir.

11.17.08: John Adams and Walt Whitman at Harvard.

11.17.08: Ab-Ex painter and New York School muse Grace Hartigan is dead.

11.17.08: Meghan O'Rourke and the online trinity of lady editors at Slate.

11.14.08: Ezra Pound in Austin, Texas.

11.14.08: China's Poetry Idol may be on the verge of stardom.

11.14.08: Lewis Turco calls B.S. on Kleinzahler.

11.14.08: Learning poems by heart for cash and prizes.

11.14.08: Obama's "lost poems" found in Greensboro.

11.14.08: Gloucester looks to Charles Olson in the face of gentrification.

11.14.08: Schwarzenegger crowns Muske-Dukes California's poet laureate.

11.14.08: San Louis Obispo's poet laureate celebrates "Language of the Soul".

11.14.08: "My dearest potato-chan!": Harvest-inspired poetry in Japan.

11.13.08: Linda Bierds unifies technology, religion, science and art.

11.13.08: Christian activists halt UK poetry book launch.

11.13.08: Wu Tang Clan and Shakespeare, tragic poets all.

11.13.08: Goncourt Prize winner inspired by poet.

11.13.08: J.D. McClatchy's "Our Town" in New Hampshire.

11.13.08: The poetics of Philly civics.

11.13.08: Loving the freak in Joe Brainard's Nancy.

11.13.08: Madonna says A-Rod "has the heart of a poet"; most likely Rod McKuen's.

11.12.08: Jack Spicer's vocabulary did this to the Boston Review.

11.12.08: Nikki Giovanni flips the script on hip hop for kids.

11.12.08: The poetry of Sid Vicious.

11.12.08: Kicking the poetry habit.

11.12.08: Study shows poetic truth has the truthiness of truth truth.

11.12.08: Golf's poet laureate inducted into hall of fame.

11.12.08: The home video review of books.

11.12.08: Allen Grossman is not alone.

11.12.08: The fierce urgency of now: a write or die app.

11.11.08: Poet Nay Myo Kyaw gets 20 years in Burmese jail for satirical poem.

11.11.08: Preserving Rudyard Kipling's cricket grounds.

11.11.08: Natasha Trethaway's national anthem.

11.11.08: World War I's forgotten boy writes terrible poetry.

11.11.08: The poetry of women war vets on NPR.

11.11.08: Poet Suzanne Steele in the Canadian Forces Artists Program.

11.11.08: A poppy for poet boy on Remembrance Day.

11.11.08: Harryette Mullen named United States Artists Fellow.

11.10.08: Williams and Dickinson for kids.

11.10.08: Campaign in poetry, govern in prose, transition in Walcott.

11.10.08: August Kleinzahler on James Merrill.

11.10.08: Lift, joy, and unexpected reward in Seamus Heaney.

11.10.08: Laureate Kay Ryan with librarian James Billington on Charlie Rose.

11.10.08: "Courage is not the abnormal": Mary Karr on Jack Gilbert.

11.10.08: "Somebody else's poet," Maya Angelou works on Obama verse.

11.10.08: WWI poetry manuscripts go digital at Oxford.

11.10.08: Seattle's new Poet Populist.

11.10.08: A cornucopia of autumn book prizes.

11.07.08: To hell with terza rima.

11.07.08: Josephine Hart puts UK poetry in its cultural place.

11.07.08: In praise of Graywolf.

11.07.08: Tributes for Irish poet James Liddy.

11.07.08: Young slammers take over Canada.

11.07.08: Busboys and Poets at George Washington U.

11.07.08: The poetry and praise of Leonard Cohen.

11.07.08: Detained journalists join poet in Burmese jail.

11.06.08: "New" Kerouac-Burroughs collaboration grew from poetry breakfast.

11.06.08: The lost propaganda of Dylan Thomas, found.

11.06.08: Celebrating 100 years of Theodore Roethke.

11.06.08: Political poetry on the UT campus.

11.06.08: Mary Karr inside and out.

11.06.08: Lives in six words, the new haiku.

11.06.08: UK poets open multi-million dollar library renovation.

11.05.08: Election Day Poems in the New York Times.

11.05.08: Lawrence Ferlinghetti hopes for a Camelot Epoch.

11.05.08: The myth of the debauched poet.

11.05.08: Vera Britain's poetry of the first world war.

11.05.08: Distinguishing a poem from a death threat in Toronto.

11.05.08: The Irish slam scene observed.

11.05.08: Remembering Wilfred Owen.

11.04.08: Whitman on our "quadrennial choosing."

11.04.08: Could Obama's poetry help the arts?

11.04.08: Up Down Left Right Left Right ABAB: Dante's cheat code out of hell?

11.04.08: When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

11.04.08: John Ashbery at the movies.

11.04.08: Voter poetry: "Fitting one fragment of a total secret together."

11.04.08: Warren Buffet and the Waste Land Explained.

11.03.08: William Logan on Bishop and Lowell.

11.03.08: Linda Bierds in flight.

11.03.08: John Crowe Ransom vexed by death in Travers City.

11.03.08: Scottish love poems for every taste.

11.03.08: Returning poetry to the community in Tucson.

11.03.08: Visiting Lorca's grave, guided by voices.

11.03.08: Doug the Poet vs. Joe the Plumber.

11.03.08: Did Phillip Lopate write Ayers memoir?

10.31.08: Cute animals are out, poems are in for Canadian wine labels.

10.31.08: Was Dracula modeled after Walt Whitman?

10.31.08: Life on Earth with Derek Mahon.

10.31.08: "Poetry and bad things exist at the same time" at Chico bookstore.

10.31.08: Gary Snyder on John McCain's reading list.

10.31.08: Rick Hilles, Douglas Kearney and Julie Sheehan win Whiting Writers' Awards.

10.31.08: Celebrating Dia de los Muertos with poetry, skulls.

10.30.08: W.S. Merwin: charismatic, contemplative, hypnotic, unpunctuated.

10.30.08: Poet scholars in the MLA and ALSC kiss and make-up.

10.30.08: Wendell Berry pushes back against the age.

10.30.08: All hail King Ubu.

10.30.08: Robert Pinsky in the Live Free or Die state.

10.30.08: Szymborska's voice rings true at the Pentagon.

10.30.08: Poetry lights up Tribune Tower.

10.30.08: The upstate NY man behind the "fabulous letters" of Bishop and Lowell.

10.29.08: The breakdowns and blackouts of Bishop and Lowell.

10.29.08: Lily Allen: Wordsworth of the MySpace Generation?

10.29.08: Two great flavors together at last: cake and poetry.

10.29.08: Prose vs. poetry in the New York capitol.

10.29.08: The mixed media Emily Dickinson in Houston.

10.29.08: Joshua Beckman, "rock star poet."

10.29.08: Poets Against the War in Ohio.

10.29.08: A Seattle poetry slam's Sarah Palin punchline.

10.28.08: John Walsh wants poets to rise to the challenge.

10.28.08: Tampa Bay Ray preps for the World Series with Ashbery and Creeley.

10.28.08: Do poets make good husbands?

10.28.08: Sharing a bed with Shelley's ghost.

10.28.08: Blake as imaginative navigator of South London.

10.28.08: Paul Mariani, if not priest then poet.

10.28.08: The poetic poise of the hummingbird.

10.28.08: Robert Burns in Brooklyn.

10.28.08: Algerian librarian fired for inviting poet Adonis to speak.

10.27.08: "Brass knuckle thuggery" in Ginsberg's letters.

10.27.08: Donald Hall looks back.

10.27.08: Knock knock. Who's there? Brenda Shaughnessy.

10.27.08: Stanley Fish and politics regained.

10.27.08: Finding poetry in salted and boiled chicks.

10.27.08: Krugman gets poetic.

10.27.08: Lit detectives find Jewish poetry stolen by Nazis in German libraries.

10.27.08: A probation violation turns poetic in Michigan.

10.27.08: Collected poems in the year of Zbigniew Herbert.

10.24.08: Patrick Phillips falls between Carl and Sylvia.

10.24.08: John Ashbery advises young poets to dig in their heels.

10.24.08: Expanding the borders of Latino poetry.

10.24.08: Galway Kinnell rumbles into Vermont.

10.24.08: Keeping the Gregory Corso beat alive.

10.24.08: Halloween Poetry Spooktacular.

10.24.08: Dead poets slam.

10.24.08: Robert Pinsky joins the fray.

10.23.08: Helen Vendler on Berlin's half zombie poet.

10.23.08: "This ill-mannered prodigy from Charleville": Rimbaud on Truth and Beauty.

10.23.08: A terrible beauty is sold: Yeats at auction.

10.23.08: Writers in Jordan demand poet's release.

10.23.08: Chapbooks thrive in the Triangle.

10.23.08: Poet imprisoned in Rangoon honored in Toronto with empty chair.

10.23.08: Judging August Kleinzahler by his cover.

10.23.08: Haiku death match in Cleveland.

10.23.08: Half a millennium without a poet.

10.22.08: Honoring Lord Byron's service in Greece.

10.22.08: The sound and sense of architecture.

10.22.08: A "scholar with a heart" translates lyrics of Persian love.

10.22.08: Paradise Lost found streaming online.

10.22.08: Grandfather of rap Rudy Ray Moore is dead.

10.22.08: Exploring the disappointment of poetry at a Calgary laundromat.

10.22.08: Montana poet has the Salish spirit.

10.22.08: Pram in the hall, artist in the parliament.

10.22.08: Clive James writes in praise of super agent Pat Kavanagh.

10.21.08: A Ready-to-Eat poem for New Orleans.

10.21.08: Opening Bukowski's wine-stained notebooks.

10.21.08: Poet accused of insulting Islam arrested in Jordan.

10.21.08: Agent to the UK literary stars is dead.

10.21.08: Pair of Irish lads win Ted Hughes award.

10.21.08: Sharon Dolin shares an extra sin on NPR.

10.21.08: Wichita Eagle names Merwin "our greatest living poet."

10.21.08: Reveling in rare book obscurity.

10.21.08: The literary ambitions of Indian bureaucrats sparks jealousy.

10.20.08: "Poetry is all about losing money."

10.20.08: The oldest piece of Japan's oldest poetry.

10.20.08: Charles Simic loves his labyrinth.

10.20.08: Kay Ryan "yanked out of the monastery and into the public."

10.20.08: Early menopause births "Mean" poetry.

10.20.08: Expensive graves and Roger Fanning.

10.20.08: Stretching a food metaphor at the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival.

10.20.08: Cambridge looking for a poet with text appeal.

10.20.08: Matthew Arnold's "honeymoon poem."

10.20.08: Hunting the elusive conservative poem.

10.17.08: Honoring Reginald Shepherd.

10.17.08: The greater maturity of Billy Collins.

10.17.08: Poetry in the schools frozen in the ice.

10.17.08: A makeover for the Poetry Society.

10.17.08: Trawling for literature in the Arab world.

10.17.08: In search of the Whopper laureate.

10.17.08: Pot meet kettle: "Poetry itself is dull, boring, full of itself and attracts duller, stuffier and exceedingly arrogant types."

10.17.08: The Birthday Letters revisited.

10.17.08: Dis poet Mutabaruka, dub royalty.

10.17.08: Mayor of Missoula hearts Ogden Nash.

10.16.08: Do we need more gossip about Sylvia and Ted?

10.16.08: National Book Award finalists announced.

10.16.08: Renting Dylan Thomas.

10.16.08: Kevin Coval is still louder than a bomb.

10.16.08: Two Native American poets in the Tuscon mist.

10.16.08: Robert Creeley, despairing husband.

10.16.08: Dr. Atomic, with a cameo by Baudelaire.

10.16.08: Dağlarca, father of Turkish epic poetry, dies.

10.16.08: Poetry and Irish song.

10.16.08: Colin Powell raps against yahoo yahoo boys.

10.16.08: Patrica Smith still loved in Chicago.

10.16.08: Crazy Russian hijacker also a bad poet.

10.15.08: Ezra Pound in prison.

10.15.08: Ted Hughes archive bought for $1M.

10.15.08: Mark Doty at the "Southern gay mecca."

10.15.08: Composer Glass and poet Cohen keep some kind of record.

10.15.08: Jo Bell takes the stuffiness out of sonnets.

10.15.08: Chris Offut's guide to literary terms.

10.15.08: Discovering Sarah Lindsay.

10.14.08: Making out with Emily Dickinson.

10.14.08: Zanzibar's poetry in praise of the prophet.

10.14.08: UK poets rail against terror detentions.

10.14.08: Robert Burns and the old lady vernacular.

10.14.08: Science says: Poetry is no country for old men.

10.14.08: Christian leader calls for new culture of poetry.

10.14.08: Nikki Giovanni's hip hop for kids.

10.14.08: Patricia Smith dazzled by the "huge human mistake" of Katrina.

10.14.08: Bloodkin and other lyrics of the South.

10.13.08: The Cubs of literature: American Poets have a hundred year Nobel drought.

10.13.08: Bill Knott and the undead Saint Geraud.

10.13.08: Richard Hell on Rimbaud.

10.13.08: Afaa Michael Weaver in East Baltimore: Tai Chi under the trees.

10.13.08: Refashioning the original in Bierds' "Zuni Potter."

10.13.08: Pakistan's poems for a penny.

10.13.08: Poetry Daily began with a glance.

10.13.08: A spectacular library at a modest price.

10.13.08: Three decades of Poetry Ireland.

10.13.08: Felix Dennis, liquor laureate.

10.13.08: Lewis Carroll and the war on piracy.

10.10.08: Poetry goes to work.

10.10.08: "Pat the Voice" channels Dylan Thomas.

10.10.08: E-lit pioneer Stephanie Strickland isn't giving up on paper.

10.10.08: "Dark angel with her unruly Slavic eyebrows" wouldn't mind a meet-up.

10.10.08: UK Minister argues for more librarian "joy and chatter."

10.10.08: How to capitalize on a cultural asset (poetry) in Massachussets.

10.10.08: Millionaire poet plies audiences with free wine, so-so verse.

10.10.08: Poetic strategies in the oblivion of David Foster Wallace.

10.09.08: Scottish poet Mick Imlah wins the Forward Prize.

10.09.08: Rosanna Warren's anti-memoir of verse.

10.09.08: "Poetry dead? An absurd idea," says Pinsky.

10.09.08: National Poetry Day in the UK.

10.09.08: An argument for the Nobel for "outstanding literary achievement with no fancy stuff."

10.09.08: The poet psyche express.

10.09.08: Pure poetry and football.

10.09.08: Poetry in the raw.

10.09.08: Amiri Baraka: "If you don't get hit in the head, you've got a future."

10.08.08: Charlotte Kohler, renowned editor at VQR, dies at 99.

10.08.08: A lesbian poetry retrospective.

10.08.08: The absolute and the everyday in Rae Armantrout.

10.08.08: Canadian lit booster dies.

10.08.08: Finnish poet Paavo Haavikko is dead.

10.08.08: Budding Brookline poet "completely rad."

10.08.08: Ashley Capps has "survival skills given by the human imagination."

10.08.08: The Poetry Treatment puts verse in the can.

10.08.08: John Snow, cricketer poet.

10.07.08: Robert Hass: "There's something wrong with the American moral imagination."

10.07.08: Poetry from the political fringe.

10.07.08: Poet Samhan an "enemy of Islam."

10.07.08: The UK tries to Import important poetry.

10.07.08: It's always time to write another poem!

10.07.08: The poetry of Honest Abe.

10.07.08: Uncovering Kim Soo-young.

10.07.08: Pick the crazy one: Rural juror? No. Lit juror? Yes.

10.07.08: CK Williams inside and out.

10.07.08: Ledbury Poetry Festival goes digital.

10.07.08: A call for credit crunch poetry.

10.06.08: The power and the trouble of Aimé Césaire.

10.06.08: Learning poems by heart.

10.06.08: Burying Czeslaw Milosz.

10.06.08: Derek Walcott has no time to be original.

10.06.08: Hughes on Plath: "My attempt to correct that marriage is madness from start to finish."

10.06.08: Trace to predicament: Olds, Giscombe, and McClane.

10.06.08: Giovanni on Parks: "Black love is black wealth."

10.06.08: Keeping campuses from becoming arts waste lands.

10.06.08: Clive James: The book of my enemy has been remaindered.

10.06.08: Luv like a melody: Bob Dylan's greatest influence.

10.03.08: Multimedia Yeats in Dublin.

10.03.08: Felix Dennis on crack and poetry.

10.03.08: The vice-presidential poetry slam.

10.03.08: Cross-genre: Poet's first novel shortlisted for Writer's Trust Prize.

10.03.08: "Dave and Greg's Excellent Language Adventures."

10.03.08: Just win, baby: the poetry of Oakland's Al Davis.

10.03.08: Lucie Brock-Broido at Plymouth State: "When I say short, I mean the life was small."

10.03.08: Robert Bly and "the whiny one inside us."

10.03.08: Kat Dennings, "daughter of a poet."

10.02.08: Sarah Heath Palin, "Alaskan Poet."

10.02.08: Henri Cole wins Lenore Marshall Award.

10.02.08: Long dead, Schiller ordered to pay up for TV.

10.02.08: What is Billy Collins trying to say?

10.02.08: Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse moves to Arkansas.

10.02.08: Singing William Stafford songs in Oregon.

10.02.08: "Leaves of grass my ass; here's Alfred Lord Tennyson."

10.01.08: Hayden Carruth, "one of the most important poets of his generation," is dead at 87.

10.01.08: "To watch from the shore other people drowning."

10.01.08: Robert Burns in the loo.

10.01.08: The true stories of "The Odyssey" and "The lliad."

10.01.08: The Colonel and Carolyn Forche.

10.01.08: Nobel head proves Europeans still snobby.

10.01.08: Lowell and Bishop a bipolar pair.

10.01.08: Celebrating poetry in the commonwealth.

10.01.08: Cops bust poem peddler.

10.01.08: Seamus Heaney's poems for Harvard.

10.01.08: U.S. no longer deprived of Clive James.

09.30.08: In Memoriam: Hayden Carruth (1921-2008).

09.30.08: Lorine Niedecker's radical vernacular.

09.30.08: A spell in every sea shell left on H.D.'s grave.

09.30.08: Shedding light on the small darkened rooms of translators.

09.30.08: Ephemera from the life of Tennyson.

09.30.08: A poem from Iraq in Pennsylvania.

09.30.08: Kaloji Narayana Rao, people's poet of India.

09.30.08: Eleanor Rees, Zoo Poet.

09.30.08: Basho wept: more election haiku.

09.29.08: F=I=N=A=N=C=E.

09.29.08: "The poet is a lifer": Clive James' selected.

09.29.08: Andrei Codrescu's songs of storms and exile.

09.29.08: "Bombay Poets" haven't mellowed with age.

09.29.08: Songs for the rainy season in the Guardian.

09.29.08: The Syracuse School.

09.29.08: The chamber music of Ginsberg's "Howl".

09.29.08: Art and politics, opinions and advertising in poetry at McGill.

09.29.08: Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian love poet, is dead.

09.29.08: Reviewing "Committing Poetry in Times of War."

09.26.08: At Harvard and on "The dark side of the Byronic fence."

09.26.08: An English anthology of Indian poetry, at last.

09.26.08: Dodge Poetry Festival, a communal event in the physical world.

09.26.08: Tao Lin is a little bit happier than you are.

09.26.08: The language poetry of Urban Dictionary.

09.26.08: Patti Smith on film, and celebrating Allen Ginsberg.

09.26.08: Public laureate says poetry is private communication.

09.26.08: At light, turn left for poetry.

09.26.08: Winning over the bardophobes with Shakespeare on toast.

09.26.08: Does free verse in free fall need a formal bailout?

09.25.08: Canonizing the bootleg with Shakespeare, Dylan, et al.

09.25.08: Deconstructing Bin Laden the Bard.

09.25.08: Grove Press and the art of the obscene.

09.25.08: Lionel Trilling, too, dislikes Lionel Trilling.

09.25.08: Film fest features Killer Poet.

09.25.08: Joan of Arcadia, poet, takes on San Francisco.

09.25.08: E-lit and Tristan Tzara's hat trick.

09.25.08: Hunting the poetic in New Jersey.

09.25.08: Baudelaire and Verlaine set to sing.

09.24.08: "The strength of the college was its greatest weakness": a look back at Black Mountain.

09.24.08: Medieval manuscripts go digital.

09.24.08: Baraka pushes for Barack at PEN Fest.

09.24.08: Poetry and science, research and development.

09.24.08: Love, not clogged indignation for poetry's State of the Union.

09.24.08: Elizabeth Spires, bailout poet.

09.24.08: In praise of Dana Gioia.

09.24.08: Vacate the throne, Dinkar is coming.

09.24.08: The poetry of Italian master Titian.

09.24.08: Helping raise funds for an Ozark poet laureate.

09.24.08: Poetry is an affair of sanity at Massachusetts Festival.

09.24.08: Mary Oliver comes to Ketchum.

09.24.08: Online reading gets an F.

09.24.08: The Typewriter Whisperer.

09.23.08: What does Wordsworth think of the sonnet?

09.23.08: How to write good poetry? Read good poetry, says Wendy Cope.

09.23.08: Channeling the "imperfect penance" of Georg Trakl.

09.23.08: Outsider poetry and Jayne Cortez in Oakland.

09.23.08: VCU's Reading Prize honors legacy of Larry Levis.

09.23.08: "The Sarah Palin of poetry."

09.23.08: Sherman Alexie says, "All men live lives of quiet desperation. I just have more metaphors."

09.23.08: To blurb or not to blurb, that is the "nauseating and demeaning" question.

09.23.08: Michael Redhill, Saskia Hamilton, and Dennis O'Driscoll set to judge Griffin Prize.

09.23.08: Honoring Abraham Lincoln, president and poet.

09.23.08: "The Valve" remembers Reginald Shepherd.

09.23.08: Busboys and poets in Washington D.C.

09.22.08: Mary Karr picks poems for David Foster Wallace.

09.22.08: Journal to publish Osama Bin Laden's poems.

09.22.08: In times of trouble, actor Paul Rudd turns to poet Dave the Slave.

09.22.08: Marking time with an Oklahoma cowboy poet.

09.22.08: Sidewalk poetry in St. Paul.

09.22.08: Anarchist poets blow Missouri's mind.

09.22.08: Will write for tenure.

09.22.08: Language for a New Century born out of despair.

09.22.08: Vancouver poets in the quaggy wild.

09.22.08: Katie Ford in the aftermath of Katrina.

09.19.08: Motion says Betjeman loathed laureateship too.

09.19.08: Simon Armitage: Now with active ingredients!

09.19.08: Brigit Pegeen Kelly wins Academy of American Poets fellowship.

09.19.08: David Wagoner takes on "grumpy neighbors, noisy parties, and sterile social events."

09.19.08: Pennsylvania poets dig coal mining history.

09.19.08: Bloody Awful Poetry charms Brits.

09.19.08: Twenty years of Factory Readings in the OC.

09.19.08: Donald Hall turns 80, New Hampshire declares Donald Hall Day.

09.18.08: Lorca's family open to grave digging.

09.18.08: Mahmoud Darwish's last poems.

09.18.08: The NEA's Poetry Pavilion with Kay Ryan and Laura Bush.

09.18.08: Re-imagining Anne Sexton's fairy tales.

09.18.08: Polling poetry's progress in UK schools.

09.18.08: Celebrating Iran's "National Day of Poetry and Literature."

09.18.08: Poetry offers bread and roses in the Sac Bee.

09.18.08: The life and times of Montale's muse.

09.18.08: Canadian literary society plans book sale, book lovers protest.

09.17.08: Who wants to be a thousandaire?

09.17.08: Poetry wants a raisin bagel.

09.17.08: Robert Frost's pedagogy: "I don't teach. I don't know how."

09.17.08: Return of the bohemian king, Viggo Mortensen.

09.17.08: Donald Hall unpacks his memories of "love, death, and New Hampshire."

09.17.08: National assets: The Ayatollah on poetics.

09.17.08: The embedded cognition of metaphorical language.

09.17.08: Looking for the future of publishing outside the corporate world.

09.17.08: Slam poetry in the Twin Cities.

09.17.08: Books outmaneuvered by online poetry.

09.17.08: The laureate of self defense.

09.17.08: Return of the poet's poison.

09.16.08: "i went home an began wrtin'": Bob Dylan's poetry in the New Yorker.

09.16.08: New media's war against serious literature.

09.16.08: China's autumnal poetry explosion.

09.16.08: Lament for the editors.

09.16.08: Angola celebrates poetry of "National Hero" Neto.

09.16.08: Japanese poet Takahashi to get a new perspective thanks to NEA.

09.16.08: Chicago Tribune finds poetry in a can of paint.

09.16.08: Tran Dan posthumously wins Vietnam's Life Award for Poetry.

09.16.08: Tehran's Islamic Propagation Department plans to show poems and faces.

09.15.08: The envelope, please. HBO and Poetry Foundation team up to win an Emmy® for Outstanding Children's Program. Watch it here.

09.15.08: Cutting up the instruction manual: Ashbery's collage.

09.15.08: A close reading of "Storm Poetry."

09.15.08: Narrow road to the White House littered with Presidential haiku.

09.15.08: Celebrating Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

09.15.08: Plain dealing with Donald Hall's memoir.

09.15.08: Dylan Thomas biopic whets the appetite for Wales.

09.15.08: Mark Strand and Carl Phillips and George Herbert.

09.15.08: "Like Eurydice, Linda Gregg was married to a poet."

09.15.08: Visiting Carl Sandburg in North Carolina.

09.12.08: Dana Gioia stepping down as head of NEA. (Gioia's real reason for stepping down.)

09.12.08: Is Cuttyhunk Prospero's island?

09.12.08: UK Poet busted stealing ex's undies.

09.12.08: An indie publisher's book giveaway.

09.12.08: Searching for Achilles and Hector in Turkey.

09.12.08: Breaking the poetry fast in Cairo.

09.12.08: Hazel Figurine, Spill Fantauzza, and the Silver Jews.

09.11.08: Hailing Rain Taxi.

09.11.08: Living up to the writer-in-residence title.

09.11.08: Reginald Shepherd has died.

09.11.08: "Few jobs are quite so hard, and so strange, as that of Poet Laureate."

09.11.08: Further adventures of an albino terrorist.

09.11.08: And the stars fell over Alabama (Mark Doty, too).

09.11.08: "Simic Songs" at Wesleyan University.

09.11.08: Ruminating on Coleman Barks.

09.11.08: Remembering Portsmouth poet Robert Dunn.

09.11.08: The 20th Century's "foreign homeland" for European artists.

09.10.08: Remembering Tom Disch in Contemporary Poetry Review.

09.10.08: James Franco: starving, hysterical, naked.

09.10.08: New Zealand Prime Minister Award winner works like "a mad rabbit."

09.10.08: Poet Michael Rosen launches Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

09.10.08: Poetry from Women of a New Tribe in Detroit.

09.10.08: The Prince and the Poet: Machiavelli's sonnets.

09.10.08: A philanthropist's gift to the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

09.10.08: Texas poet revels in mermaids.

09.10.08: Hips do the work, and John Godfrey crosses the world.

09.10.08: Braintree poet pens annual 9/11 elegy.

09.09.08: But, Andrew Motion wonders, does the Queen like my poetry?

09.09.08: The "hippest man on earth," Robin Blaser.

09.09.08: "Something I expected to be different": from Verse to Wave.

09.09.08: A poet's advice on the environment, vacations, and universal hatred.

09.09.08: Jimmy Santiago Baca in prison.

09.09.08: Jim Dine's Getty-inspired poetry.

09.09.08: Democrat and Republican visual poetry.

09.09.08: Dale Smith on poetry in public spaces.

09.09.08: Society needs poets, however undemocratic.

09.09.08: BBC Four set to broadcast poetry series Lines in the Landscape.

09.09.08: A look in at Poetry Flash.

09.09.08: After apple picking, poetry for this New Hampshire farmer.

09.08.08: Publishing giant Robert Giroux is dead.

09.08.08: Ditching the Poet Laureate in favor of a Philosopher Royal.

09.08.08: The meta-poetry of poetry.

09.08.08: Carol Ann Duffy, banned, replies in verse.

09.08.08: Pakistan's bureaucrat poet speaks.

09.08.08: "Noble Savage Confronts Indian Mascot" and other Native American poems.

09.08.08: Emotion recollected in tranquility? Not so much.

09.08.08: Rude and squalid poets' pub in SoHo faces closure.

09.08.08: Jeffrey Steele, poet and prophet.

09.05.08: Poems among items in karoshi (death from overwork) exhibition.

09.05.08: Inventing Yehuda Amichai.

09.05.08: "His alcoholic raincoat": on Kiwi poet James Baxter.

09.04.08: Robert Pinsky wins Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize.

09.04.08: How a critic saved John Keats from oblivion.

09.04.08: Telecom puts British poetry on hold.

09.04.08: Russia's iron fist pushes deep reading.

09.04.08: Emerging female writers win Rona Jaffe awards.

09.04.08: Poet rustles up American Cowboy Culture lifetime achievement award.

09.04.08: William Carlos Williams turns 125.

09.04.08: Tracking local bookstores online.

09.04.08: Perseus offers small presses digital options.

09.04.08: Start-up publisher as huckster-visionary.

09.03.08: Louise Glück wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award.

09.03.08: Nicaragua's case against the poet Ernesto Cardenal.

09.03.08: British knife crime's latest victim: the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy.

09.03.08: John Ashbery as gaudy skyscraper.

09.03.08: "No dictator has ever written good poetry."

09.03.08: In praise of the age-old chapbook.

09.03.08: A meditation on Lu Tong's "Seven Cups of Tea."

09.03.08: Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac and the best of YouTube.

09.03.08: Allowing yourself eddies of meaning: the science of daydreaming.

09.03.08: In search of true love off the shelf.

09.02.08: Appraising the "old opposites" in the work of Adam Kirsch.

09.02.08: Billy Collins on the trouble with poetry.

09.02.08: Ted Hughes at home in Yorkshire.

09.02.08: Putting chaos in its place at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

09.02.08: "Nothing is lost in translation except the poetry."

09.02.08: A debt ditty for New Zealanders.

09.02.08: The poetics of anarchy.

09.02.08: David Berman as Babar the Elephant.

09.02.08: Turning the poems of Dubai's vice president into good TV.

09.02.08: Filipinos celebrate the poetry of Captain Bibo.

09.02.08: A statue for Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi.

09.02.08: Poetry in St. Benedict's maintenance department.

08.29.08: What is and what is not