Poetic Fashion and Unfashion: On Literary Outliers April 18, 2011: I recently participated, along with Annie Finch, Cate Marvin, and Kristen Prevallet, in a panel at Harvard called, "Poetic Fashion and Unfashion: On Literary Outliers."  The idea, which Woodberry Poetry Room Curator Christina Davis came up with, was to have us discuss "outlier poets whose work presents a counterpoint to our current literary [...] by Don Share

Poetry blogging is dead, long live poetry blogging! April 7, 2011: About a year ago on my own blog, I concluded that poetry blogging was dead. This was done with tongue mostly in cheek, at a time of wagging tongues—and wags. Comment streams, readers may recall, had become tails wagging the dog of poetry blog posts. I was kidding; but little did I know how much was about to change. The reconfiguration of [...] by Don Share

POETRY in Kazakhstan April 29, 2010: We were recently contacted by the Innovative University of Eurasia (Kazakhstan), who are in need of English-language books and magazines for their reading programs. We sent them copies of Poetry magazine, copies of a poetry anthology, and a few other things. Above is a photo of the special-needs kids who used these materials in their [...] by Don Share

Haiti January 13, 2010: We've been looking into the best ways to help out those who are suffering so terribly in Haiti following yesterday's earthquake. The best single source of reliable information we've found so far is from our web-colleagues at The Rumpus, via poet and Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears.  Please click here (and he is adding additional [...] by Don Share

Lisa Robertson: Dispatch from Jouhet! November 10, 2009: During a site migration (I love technical jargon, don't you?), a number of Harriet's journals were lost.  But I'm pleased - and extremely grateful to the crack web team here for their help - to be able to re-present this one!  It's Lisa Robertson's dispatch from Jouhet, France.  Here you go...  enjoy!  Discuss!! (more...) by Don Share

Poetry makes nothing happen… or does it? November 4, 2009: You see the phrase, "poetry makes nothing happen" trotted out over and over again, attributed to W.H. Auden as some sort of evidence for the reductiveness and hermetic inutility of poetry.  And yet... (more...) by Don Share

X-Rays and Fowling Pieces September 9, 2009: Shout out to a poet whose poems - like X-rays - are quick, high-voltage and penetrating... like this one, called, well, "The X-Ray" -- (more...) by Don Share

Real life August 3, 2009: "I do not know what you think of departments of English, but the good ones are not random collections of tedious pedants..." (more...) by Don Share

We do things funny over here… July 8, 2009: [caption id="attachment_4131" align="alignnone" width="266" caption="Vera Pavlova (left)"][/caption] I recently attended the Poetry International festival in Rotterdam - one of the best poetry-related events I've ever been to - meeting day and night with poets from countries other than the USA, and heard - literally - not a single word about [...] by Don Share

The line’s for real June 24, 2009: Not infrequently, we get letters or blog-responses to individual poems published in Poetry that cite particular phrases or lines in order to prove somehow that a poem or poet (and, by implication, our taste) is lousy.  It's an invidious tactic, and it occurs to me that one can make any poem in the world look bad by pulling a line or so out of [...] by Don Share