Radio Poésie April 2, 2010: Bonjour mes amis, This blog post comes with instructions, if you need them.  Copy all of the text, go to Google Translator, and paste into the Translate Text Box.  The below boxes should read “Translate from French” and “Translate to English” respectively.  Then click “Translate.” Viola! Il est bon de revenir au salon de [...] by Major Jackson

“She is mirage I feverishly address as specific” November 20, 2009: Spent some time in a clinic today, the waiting turning into an interesting duration (every time I encounter the word duration I think of Kenneth Koch staring off into space during an interview saying, “everything lasts a certain period of time….that’s very odd”) within which to read more of Virginia Woolf’s Between The Acts. But once the [...] by Anselm Berrigan

Once More, in English Please October 12, 2009: The recent announcement that Herta Muller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature came as a huge surprise to me as I’m sure it did to many Americans. While Muller has written twenty books, only 5, according to the New York Times, have been translated into English. The tiny percentage of Muller’s work translated into [...] by John S. O'Connor

This Science Fair, My Prison August 12, 2009: August is the month for star-gazing, and what better way to prepare for the Perseids than to spend part of this horrid sun-lit day reading about the great Romantic scientists?  In her new article, "Keats in Space," Molly Young explains that the work of William and Caroline Herschel, Sir Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy, and Mungo Park all took [...] by Travis Nichols

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 4. "To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not to Yield" by [...] by Travis Nichols

New Year Greeting January 2, 2009: Harriet asks me to wish you all the best in the new year, and to thank all the readers, bloggers and commenters who've stopped by these last twelve months and more - please do keep coming back! In the new year's resolution department, she also wants me to remind everyone to be kind as circumstances permit: to fortify and express your passions [...] by Don Share

It wasn’t a writers’ strike April 7, 2008: Harriet has been experiencing technical difficulties the past several days, meaning our writers couldn't post, and we couldn't publish your comments. We've resolved the problem, so look out for a barrage of new entries. by Poetry

What are some creative ways to promote poetry? August 22, 2007: In the Spring issue of American Poet (put out by the Academy of American Poets) Lyn Hejinian gave an interesting answer to what is by now (especially around these offices) a rote question. She was asked, "What are some creative ways to promote poetry?" to which she responded: Poetry doesn't need promotion. People need time. A revolutionary way to [...] by Michael Marcinkowski

A Glamorously Hopeless Cause July 9, 2007: "Concepts, too, have feelings," Carter Ratcliff says in his afterword to "Arrivederci, Modernismo:" I am not saying that a concept -- "number," for example, or "constitutionality" -- is literally capable of emotions. What I mean is that there is an emotional tone to the understanding of such things. An art critic, a writer who specializes in the [...] by Ange Mlinko

Trackback May 1, 2007: About half our readers come from search engines and other places looking for poems to post on their blogs. Here’s a few linking to us today: 1. Can’t you put up some more? Chris Frizzale on the The Stranger's blog complains about our Heather McHugh selection. What he might not understand is the complicated world of poetry permissions. 2. [...] by Emily Warn