Cowboy Poetry attacked with… poetry? March 9, 2011: Political theater now plays out on more venues than just the floor of the Capitol, but verse still thrives on all of them. Harry Reid has been catching some flack for citing Nevada's annual Cowboy Poetry Festival as a reason to preserve the budget for the National Endowment for the Humanities. While said flack has more to do with his [...] by Harriet Staff

“Skin” remixed in interactive, interpersonal literature March 9, 2011: Missed connection: 2,095 pieces of "Skin" have been seeking each other since 2003. Each has a single word tattooed on its body thanks to the writer Shelley Jackson who asked each "word" to volunteer as part of a human story which was never published in any other format. According to The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal: The pieces of it wandered [...] by Harriet Staff

Type-faced faces March 8, 2011: Check out these 45 text-based portraits made entirely from digital fonts. The artists on Abduzeedo probably don’t consider themselves visual poets, and are most likely coming out a web-design context. Still, it’s hard to ignore the resonance between vispo and these portraits, and it’s interesting to see a genre which has worked so diligently [...] by Harriet Staff

Can Andrew Motion cure verse-drama’s identity issues? March 2, 2011: And does he need to? With the news that Andrew Motion has turned playwright, The Guardian's Andrew Haydon questions his own knee-jerk response that poetry and theater can't mix. In fact, there's not even a phrase that accurately describes the combination (although to be fair to Motion, no one will know whether the "poetry" or the "theater" should [...] by Harriet Staff

Happy birthday, Richard Wilbur. Love, the Wall Street Journal. March 1, 2011: It's Howard's 90th b-day today, a perfect occasion for Richard B. Woodward to wonder why he's so badly loved: Why Mr. Wilbur is not more nationally beloved or imitated is perplexing. Clive James favors the suppression theory: Mr. Wilbur's virtuosity in meter and rhyme so daunted his contemporaries returning from World War II that he had to be [...] by Harriet Staff

What would poetry sound like as curated by Philip Glass? February 28, 2011: According to The Los Angeles Times' Culture Monster blog, you'll get to find out in August when Philip Glass launches his own annual arts festival at Hidden Valley arts center near Carmel, California. The Days and Nights Festival will include poetry alongside theater, dance, film and, of course music. The as yet unannounced lineup for the poetry [...] by Harriet Staff

“A multidisciplinary feat of beauty from the heart of Montreal’s poetry scene” February 25, 2011: Disappear - from the CD To Call Out in the Night by Pharmakon MTL from Ian Ferrier on Vimeo. Art Threat talks with Montreal poet Ian Ferrier about his live improvisation with the band Pharmakon MTL and its use in the video above as part of the media artist pk langshaw's d_verse project. Adding up the collaborators, that's one poet, three [...] by Harriet Staff

Thoughts On Yes And No February 15, 2011: On Thursday, February 24, at 6pm, Poetry magazine, the Poetry Foundation, the Columbia College Poetry Program, and the Center for Book and Paper Arts present: Performance Poetry in the Age of Language + Reception, featuring Edwin Torres. After the reading, the Center for Book and Paper Arts will host a reception for guests, where a selection [...] by Poetry Foundation

The future of poetry: Rapid 3D prototyping! February 14, 2011: We've seen video poetry all across YouTube, JavaScript navigations of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, and even a few Prezi poems, so what does the next advancement in technology mean for poets? ALA TechSource explores what the terrain might look like if libraries adopted 3D printing and fabrication technology. This would be a natural [...] by Harriet Staff

L…U…C…A…S…F…I…L…M February 9, 2011: A classic piece of web-based conceptual writing: Brian Kim Stefans’ aptly titled “Star Wars, one letter at a time,” which is pretty much exactly that. Very simply and elegantly executed, of course! The author’s description: “A retelling of the classic story of one California boy's mission to save the universe from boredom one letter at [...] by Harriet Staff