Articles

Am I Emo?
BY Gary Sullivan
A poetry comic.

The Body Mutiny
BY Maria McLeod
In this wide-ranging conversation, Lucia Perillo talks about killing coyotes, virtual readings, and what it's like to be a "disabled poet."

A Veil Dropped Before a Void
BY Caitlin Kimball
Was Louise Bogan's first poem her best?

A Fistful of Father's Day Poems
BY The Editors
Works about fatherhood by classic and contemporary poets.

Langston Hughes and the Broadway Blues
BY Franklin Bruno
A 1957 musical comedy reveals a different side of the Harlem Renaissance bard.

From Sago to Xinjiang
BY Justin Hopper
Mark Nowak's documentary poetry shines a light on the coal industry.

Surfing Thom Gunn's “From the Wave”
BY Joshua Weiner
Touch, risk, trust, improvisation—“the intellect as powerhouse of love.”

And Wow He Died As Wow He Lived
BY Jason Boog
Kenneth Fearing, the Federal Writers Project, and the depths of the Great Depression.

Brother Can You Spare a Biff, Bam, Oof!!!
BY Robert Polito
Kenneth Fearing's hard-boiled poetry.

I Blame Blogs
BY Allison Glock
Forget Facebook. Poetry is how to stay connected.

Only Connect
BY Tao Lin
Blogs and the vertical integration of consciousness. Or whatever.

Into the Wild
BY Laynie Browne
The collective voice of Bhanu Kapil's feral children, cyborgs, and monsters.

The Original Performance Poetry
BY David Noriega
Jerome Rothenberg's “total translations” of Navajo Horse Songs bring out the avant garde in the ancient.

The True and Untrue Confessions of Olena Kalytiak Davis
BY Ira Sadoff
How an audacious Alaskan poet has exploded lyric conventions.

The Hero and the Gunslinger
BY Aram Saroyan
Did Robert Creeley and Ed Dorn lose their way in middle age?

In Praise of Democratic Comforts
BY Stephen Burt
A William Carlos Williams poem from the Great Depression reveals the egalitarian nature of pleasure—and the formal innovation of a modernist master.

Phantoms of the Opera
BY Jeremy Axelrod
They're rarely at the top of the bill, but a few contemporary poets find themselves in-demand librettists.

Show Your Work!
BY Matthew Zapruder
A poet calls for a new kind of poetry criticism, and a new kind of critic.

Beyond the Cult of Youth
BY Tim Appelo
Tim Appelo talks to Brian Culhane, winner of the 2007 Emily Dickinson First Book Award for a poet over the age of 50.

We Brits
BY Karen McCarthy
An A-Z hyperguide to the multicultural poets, publishers, and performers changing the face of UK poetry.