Headlines: April 7, 2009 April 7, 2009: Latino/a Poetry Fest at Miami of Ohio Get a personalized edition of a Penguin Classic! Jacques Roubaud's pink oranges (more...) by Travis Nichols

Headlines: April 6, 2009 April 6, 2009: It's National Poetry Month at the Huffington Post And perhaps it's time for poetry's "dramatic image overhaul" The poetry Final Four (T.B. take note) (more...) by Travis Nichols

A Cinch(ing): A Reading of a Poem I Like April 5, 2009: At present, Canadian poet Elise Partridge can claim to enjoy a daily audience of many tens of thousands of readers. These aren’t just any old readers; they are those most coveted of literate creatures: general readers. They are also the commuters, myself included, who take public transit in Toronto where Partridge’s poem “Vuillard [...] by Jason Guriel

Headlines: April 3, 2009 April 3, 2009: The greatest poet of the great war? "This bright-skinned papa's boy": Rita Dove's Sonata Mulattica Is the economy good for small bookstores? (more...) by Travis Nichols

Plath as a Major Poet: A Thread from WOM-PO April 2, 2009: A topic raised recently on the wom-po (discussion of women's poetry) listserv caught my eye, and I got permission from the poster, Christine Hamm, to raise her question here on Harriet:  "Why is there so much resistance to seeing Sylvia Plath as a major poet"? (more...) by Annie Finch

Headlines: April 2, 2009 April 2, 2009: A poem a day from Knopf A poem a day from GottaBook (more...) by Travis Nichols

One Big Self: Finding The Noble Vernacular (C.D. Wright / Deborah Luster) April 2, 2009: Much of what passes for poetry these days is written by talented pretenders, or pretending talents. They are the products of a system which turns out poets as ably as medieval Italian city-states turned out artisans: legions of well-trained technicians who made careers out of duplicating the brush strokes of their masters. Their task was to [...] by Martin Earl

What’s the word for wonderful in your language? April 2, 2009: Global capitalism is nothing new.  Through history, the need to maintain the flow of capital has driven the diasporas of people, languages, and, yes, poetry.  Whoever thinks contemporary North American poetry is provincial or isolationist hasn’t read the four poets I discuss in this post. (more...) by Camille Dungy

National Poetry Month 2009 April 1, 2009: What, you ask, is that sound rattling your windows today? That wet, slobbery grinding and grunting all around you?   I believe, dear hearts, that it is the sound of Charles Bernstein gnashing his teeth. Why? Well,   today marks the start of America's 13th annual National Poetry Month, and thus there is much to report: (more...) by Travis Nichols