The Learning Lab’s new brew October 6, 2010: A plethora of new goodies has just been added to our Learning Lab. Explore the section for 10 new core learning lab poems, which include annotations, poem guides, teaching tips, writing ideas, and even a handful of audio recordings and video animations. In addition, you'll also find new poetic essays and articles for teachers. There's plenty to [...] by Poetry Foundation

Poetry for Labor Day September 6, 2010: Poet’s work by Lorine Niedecker Lorine Niedecker Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoff from this condensery *** Read more Labor Day poetry (if you aren't out playing croquet on a jet ski) here. by Poetry Foundation

Michael Earl Craig @harriet_poetry September 2, 2010: Attention! Poet Michael Earl Craig has taken over the Harriet Twitter feed this month.  Interested parties can follow him @harriet_poetry.  Here's his first post: "Hello people, I'm cracking my twitter knuckles, feeling like astronaut... like hockey goalie with mouth guard loose, must fix mouth guard..." And here's a video of him at [...] by Poetry Foundation

The 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Award winners August 19, 2010: The Poetry Foundation has just announced the five winners of this year’s Ruth Lilly Fellowships. Brooklyn Copeland, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Nate Klug, Dora Malech, and Christopher Shannon were selected from over 1,000 applicants to be honored with the $15,000 scholarship prize. Each year, five Lilly Fellowships are awarded to aspiring poets [...] by Poetry Foundation

An essential poetry app as addictive as raspberries August 19, 2010: This morning, the New York Times rounded up poetry smartphone apps and we were quite flattered to find our app listed as "essential." The article made special mention of the app’s “spin” feature, which allows users to pair moods and categories like “joy” and “family” to see what the poetry slot-machine magic comes up [...] by Poetry Foundation

Ramadan poetry August 13, 2010: In honor of Ramadan, we’ve recently posted a series of poems, podcasts, and features celebrating Muslim faith and Islamic culture in our features section. The very origins of Ramadan, which falls during the ninth month of the lunar calendar, are rooted in verse: Muslims believe it is the month in which the first verses of the Koran were [...] by Poetry Foundation

Gerard Malanga, Screen Test Superstar August 6, 2010: It's Andy Warhol's birthday today (woulda been 82), which is the perfect occasion to remark on this week's cover story, "Screen Test Superstar." Art historian Chelsea Weathers tracks the development of Gerard Malanga went from screen-print gofer to the defining poet of the early Andy Warhol era. Weathers focuses on Malanga's first book, [...] by Poetry Foundation

2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalists August 3, 2010: Here are the twenty-nine finalists for the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship awards. The winners will be announced on September 1: Justin Boening Jamaal May Courtney Queeney Tarfia Faizullah Dora Malech George David Clark Laura Koritz Julie Brown Nate Klug Margaret Reges Brandon Kreitler Miriam Bird Greenberg Will Tyler Kara [...] by Poetry Foundation

Defining design of an era August 2, 2010: (click the Pegasus for the show) In this week's cover story, Eric Ziegenhagen discusses the work of Cynthia Krupat and Harry Ford, two designers he says defined an era of book design: At best, the designer’s choices match the publisher’s choices and the poet’s own voice: the volumes become a consistent experience. On one hand, book design, [...] by Poetry Foundation

The 6th annual Printers’ Ball is TONIGHT! July 30, 2010: Tonight, at the Ludington Building of Columbia College in Chicago, the sixth annual Printers' Ball will host over 250 literary organizations from around the world in a celebration of print and digital publishing. PRINT by Poetry Foundation