David Biespiel Stirs the Pot May 4, 2010: The Huffington Post picked up Biespiel's feature in this month's Poetry magazine, "This Land is Your Land," and some of the HuffPo readers have taken issue with his claim that "American poetry and America's poets remain amazingly inconsequential to the rest of the nation's civic, democratic, political, and public life." From the [...] by Poetry Foundation

And what // do I love in loving thee? April 20, 2010: Chandler and Price, first series, platen press, ca. 1915 By luck, by love, by affinity Poetry magazine receives reams of poetry weekly. Earlier this year, Brian Teare of Albion Books had the (lovely) idea of sending us his latest titles, with broadsides(!). In honor of ink on paper we've put up scans of WREN/OMEN by Peter O'Learly and Hart [...] by Fred Sasaki

Can “Experimental” Poetry Save the Earth? December 2, 2009: In his essay "Vermin: a Notebook", the Australian poet John Kinsella writes that without acts of resistance, "the environment has no chance." This seems obvious enough. The way things are going, the earth (or at the very least, life on it) is in danger of being irreparably damaged by humanity's heedless gobbling of resources. Resistance [...] by Travis Nichols

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

I choose the dumb one October 17, 2009: Sorry to be MIA, a ratatouille of obstacles thrown in my path this week. Here we go: I escape from work, play hooky, and ride the subway all the way to the editor's house in Brooklyn (more...) by Edwin Torres

Transformations September 30, 2009: So long September. On this, the last day of the month, have a lasting look at Cathie Bleck’s “Transformations” above, also featured on the current cover of Poetry.  Inside, I see a hoof, a hand, and (blush) the distinct influence of Rockwell Kent. (more...) by Fred Sasaki

Flarf and Conceptual Writing in Poetry Magazine July 1, 2009: An introduction to the 21st Century's most controversial poetry movements. From the July/August 2009 Issue of Poetry Magazine by Kenneth Goldsmith Start making sense. Disjunction is dead. The fragment, which ruled poetry for the past one hundred years, has left the building. Subjectivity, emotion, the body, and desire, as expressed in [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith

2009: The Halfway-Point Reading Report June 23, 2009: The Top Ten Most-Read Articles on poetryfoundation.org Of all the articles on poetryfoundation.org, these received the most page views: 1. "Show Your Work" by Matthew Zapruder 2. "Going Negative" by Jason Guriel 3. "Poetry Can Be Any Damn Thing it Wants" by Mary Ann Caws (more...) by Travis Nichols

Happy Mother’s Day, to Foremothers, Poet-Moms, and Maggie May 10, 2009: Today I went to visit my mother, Margaret Rockwell Finch, who turned 88 a few weeks ago.  As always lately, she showed me a new poem.  Maggie was my first model of a Margaret Rockwell Finch, 1961 (more...) by Annie Finch

Is that a poem in your pocket? April 15, 2009: Poetry staff was happy to see Ana Benaroya's e-mail come over the transom with big, beautiful illustrations for us to consider for the cover of the magazine. (See November 2008 for her first appearance and April 2009 for her latest, "Crazy Head.") After perusing her website we found several poetry illos in her pocket that made us fall crazy [...] by Fred Sasaki