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

Gender, publishing, and Poetry magazine February 8, 2011: Here at Poetry we were all interested in “The Count” that VIDA recently produced. Interested, but not especially surprised. The count shows—with pretty devastating consistency—that women are under-represented in all of the major literary magazines, including Poetry (though Poetry fares much better than the others). This didn’t [...] by Christian Wiman

Essays for Robert von Hallberg February 1, 2011: Poetry magazine recently received this welcome dispatch from Chicago Review, with links to PDFs of knockouts from their latest number. From CR editor, V. Joshua Adams: Readers of Harriet may be interested in two essays on contemporary poetry from the latest issue of Chicago Review (55:3—4). In "Apocalypticism: A Way Forward for Poetry," [...] by Fred Sasaki

A Meeting with Oneself January 19, 2011: Poetry magazine recently exchanged e-mails with January cover artist Genevieve Simms, about her work. She says, Illustration from its beginnings has always been tied to a text. I find with my personal work I am often interested in finding ways to use illustration in place of text entirely. For example, I may have forgotten the words to a [...] by Fred Sasaki

The 15 most-read Poetry Foundation & Poetry magazine articles of 2010 December 2, 2010: Just in case 2010 found you locked in a basement—or with Comcast internet (zing!)—here's what your non-secluded peers made popular over the course of the year: The most-read articles from the past year, from Ginsberg to Myles to Behrle. Enjoy! 15. Ginsberg's Howl to Franco's Ginsberg—D.A. Powell, Rob Epstein, and Jeffrey [...] by Poetry Foundation

Poets’ Theater open to interpretation December 2, 2010: TimeOut Chicago's John Beer talks to Kenning Editions publisher Patrick Durgin about The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater, 1945–1985 released in January and edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. Beer points to the early days of theater, in which the idea of "poets' theater" may have seemed redundant. The modern theater, however, [...] by Poetry News

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

Lynda Barry July 2, 2010: Lynda Barry, author of, among other things, the comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek and the novel Cruddy, has written a wonderful "View From Here" feature for this month's Poetry Magazine called "Poetry is a Dumb-Ass Spider." And in a Poetry video, she sings Emily Dickinson, recites haiku, explains how poetry smells, and insists that memorizing [...] by Poetry News

Flarf in the Wall Street Journal May 25, 2010: The Wall Street Journal finds the the fact that "flarf" appeared last year in Poetry magazine a sign that "Google-Inspired Verse Gains Respect." "Flarf is a hip, digital reaction to the kind of boring, genteel poetry" popular with everyday readers, says Marjorie Perloff, a poetry critic and professor emeritus of English at Stanford [...] by Poetry News

The New York Times asks, “Does Poetry Matter?” May 12, 2010: In response to David Biespiel's essay in this month's Poetry Magazine, Gregory Cowles investigates whether or not poets have a place in civic life: I had some fun substituting “pipe fitter” for “poet” throughout Biespiel’s essay (“As go America’s pipe fitters, so goes American democracy”), because, really, shouldn’t everyone [...] by Poetry News