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According to Beauty April 28, 2011: Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths Soon April will end and I’ll be as guilty as the editors behind the fashion shoot in O Magazine’s April poetry issue. I spoke with a few of the featured poets, raising expectations that I’d write about what the O issue left out—their poetry and their experience of the shoot. Many felt set up by the [...] by

Weights and Measures April 13, 2011: A wall near a poetry translation workshop I recently attended in Fes. Catalan, Slovenian, Swiss, Arabic, French. We passed our days like tailors or engineers, in a haze of geometric abstraction. by

Beat happenings March 24, 2011: Check out these terrific pictures by Gordon Ball of “Ginsberg &; Beat Fellows” from 1967-1997. Mostly the pics document our hero-poets in decidedly domestic, non-heroic situations. Our favorite is naked Ginsberg in a leg cast, apparently singing Blake. Of course. by

Adorno in a bathing suit December 20, 2010: Happy holidays! by

Hot pics from the APR vault August 25, 2010: The Penn Library has published the online archive of poet photos from American Poetry Review—and there are some real humdingers. For example, John Yau (pictured). Taken from 1971-1998, the photos range from headshots to intimate portraits of the poets at home. Enjoy. by

Yeats on his deathbed August 11, 2010: For all of you in County Sligo, there is now on display at Countess Constance Markievicz's ancestral house a rare photograph of Yeats on his deathbed: The picture of the dying poet, taken by his wife George days before his death in 1939, shows Yeats lying on a bed, a white cat sitting on his knee. by

Allen Ginsberg behind the lens July 23, 2010: Though Allen Ginsberg earned fame from his poetry, he didn’t make much money. In the 80’s, when a financially-strapped Ginsberg rediscovered a plethora of photographs he’d taken of his beat poet friends (many of whom were also lovers), he put the pictures to work for him. The aging poet presented lectures on “Snapshot Poetics” and [...] by

I saw the best minds of my generation… and took pictures of them! May 27, 2010: Allen Ginsberg once said, "I do my sketching and observing with the camera."  Now you can see the results - online highlights from the National Gallery of Art's new exhibition, "Beat Memories," can be viewed here. From the introduction: One of the most visionary writers of his generation and author of the celebrated poem Howl, Allen [...] by

Ginsberg Photographs on Display at the National Gallery May 6, 2010: NPR reports: Allen Ginsberg is best remembered as a poet. In the 1950s and '60s he was the spokesman for a generation of disenchanted misfits who came to be known as the Beats. They were in bars and on rooftops and on the road; they listened to jazz, lost sleep over literature, got in trouble. It was a small and elite band of — mostly [...] by

Found on Flickr: Poetry, Texas June 22, 2009: [caption id="attachment_3586" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Photo of Abandoned House in Poetry, Texas by Noel Kerns"][/caption] Look at this beautiful thing--there's a place called Poetry, Texas. Anyone ever been? Noel Kerns has. One of my coworkers just reminded me that Poetry, Texas is included in a slide show of poetry in the [...] by

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