Poetry News: 30 Most Recent Entries

05.09.08
Tony Soprano, meet John Donne.

Feeling uninspired? Time to hit those science textbooks.

"I / clean my urine / on the flag / of my country": Mexico fines poet.

Remembering Amal Donqol and Nizar Qabbani and the "Arab narrative of emancipation."

"The rocks we don't anticipate": The found poetry of Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Living with Parkinson's disease turns former teacher to poetry.


05.08.08
May Day 1965: Ginsberg is king.

Poetry in the office: Line breaks instead of coffee breaks?

The ballad of the double hibakusha: living through Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Murder, they wrote: Man accused in poem is acquitted.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: How hip hop is like a sonnet.

Michael Frayn: Boris Pasternak is a poet "even when he is writing prose."

The actors are playing Russian roulette? Why, it's a rare staging of a Shel Silverstein play.

Eric Priestley: Watts poet fights to stay.


05.07.08
Who will perpetuate the shash maqam?: Ilyas Malayev, multilingual Queens poet, dies.

Three for May: Lewis Warsh, Cristina Peri Rossi, and August Kleinzahler.

Which poet thought he resembled "C.S. Lewis on a drugs charge"?

Shrikrishna Kalamb: farmer, poet, suicide.

Day school director steps down.

More Tagore!

Birthday boy Archibald MacLeish's Arizona visit.

Saddam's journals: no remorse—but plenty of love poems.

Dana Gioia: "Nobody tells me they love Bob Dylan because they read the sheet music."

"Two curmudgeonly country boys": Frost and Khruschev, reimagined in fiction.


05.06.08
Something that isn't: Robert Hass talks.

Frances Richey: war poetry for moms.

Good luck with that: Residents of Lesbos want to reclaim their name.

My coffee with Carl: Friend of Sandburg tells all.


05.05.08
Schiller: Losing his head?

Jason Shinder, RIP: Poet, educator, and former Ginsberg assistant.


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