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John Ashbery reads from his translation of Rimbaud at the New School February 18, 2011: Via The Best American Poetry, John Ashbery reads his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's "Promontory" from Illuminations. Originally published in 1886, Norton will release Ashbery's translation in May, though not with his above comments about scholars' endless attempts to track Rimbaud through Scarborough just because he mentions it in the poem. [...] by

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

Badilisha Poetry Radio puts African poets’ voices online February 7, 2011: On her blog Thoughts from Botswana, Lauri Kubuitsile directs readers to Badilisha Poetry Radio based out of The Africa Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. In a weekly podcast, Badilisha Poetry Radio plays recordings of poets spread out across the continent of Africa, as well as from Africans living around the world. Besides seeking out poetry [...] by

Waiting room reading material (that isn’t People) December 15, 2010: Danielle Ofri, editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review and a practicing internist at Bellevue Hospital describes a recent reading at the hospital and the transformative effects that providing a home for a literary magazine has had on it. Besides her current staff position, Ofri did her medical training at Bellevue and has witnessed the [...] by

“And always the best of other cultures is poetry” December 14, 2010: The Christian Science Monitor's Tom Howard reports from a hotel basement in Syria where poetry of all types is thriving. Poet, journalist and playwright Luqman Derki began his Beit al-Qasid (house of the poet) in 2006 and has seen his efforts to take poetry out of its comfort zone grow to attract hundreds of attendees and performers every [...] by

Vintage Wrestling Poetry Smackdown December 7, 2010: This video raises one of the more urgent questions of the day: What poem would you break over someone's head? And whose? by

Kerala in Translation at the Hay Festival November 11, 2010: India-Wales Writers’ Chain 2010-12 launches this weekend at the Hay Festival in Trivandrum, Kerala to foster translation projects and cultural exchange through literature. The British Council’s Wales-India programme in Kerala includes bringing two of Wales' most famous poets (Menna Elyfn, Paul Henry) together with two of Kerala's (O.N.V. [...] by

Spirit of Mary Ruefle captured by internet, will stream live September 28, 2010: Go to a poetry reading or sloth around the house in your Slanket? Tough choice. Well, now you can do both, because the eighth installment of HTMLGIANT's Live Giants online reading series is tonight. In honor of the release of Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems, local poets in Chicago and New York—including such comrades of Harriet as Matthea [...] by

Keeping track of the types of slam poetry August 6, 2010: The 21st annual National Poetry Slam is well underway in the Twin Cities, where over 500 spoken-word artists from seventy-six teams have come to partake in the the “Superbowl of slam poetry.” The Star Tribune has kept up with the latter-day "Walt Whitmans, Amiri Barakas, and Nikki Giovannis": The poems in the slam, many R-rated, often [...] by

Boston poetry’s new stars May 17, 2010: The Boston Globe profiles a new generation of Beantown bards: Poets of a certain age — as in, eligible to collect Social Security — dominate the literary scene around town. Now a younger generation is demanding to be heard. The leader of the pack, Daniel E. Pritchard, 27, founder of the online literary review Critical Flame, explained in [...] by

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