Articles

Inventing Michael Field
BY Michelle Lee
Can two women write like one man?

Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense
BY Ross Simonini
The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy.

In Memoriam: Ruth Lilly, 1915-2009
BY The Editors
The staff and trustees of the Poetry Foundation are greatly saddened by Ms. Lilly's death and honor her extraordinary legacy.

The Poetry of Deep Winter
BY Annie Finch
A selection of poems to help you get through the rest of the chill, frost, and darkness.

2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry
BY The Editors
How has poetry changed in the past ten years?

The Robert Burns Zombie Cottage of Hotlanta
BY Nick Marino
The Scottish poet at home in another time and place.

The Good, the Bad, and the Good Bad
BY Abigail Deutsch
Our ongoing fascination with terrible poetry.

The Cranberry Cantos
BY The Editors
Thanksgiving poems for family and friends.

Washington, DC, Poetry Tour
BY The Editors
Our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets.

Absolute Necessities
BY Jeff Gordinier
The recession confession of a poetry shopaholic.

Poetry and Project Runway
BY Stephen Burt
Should book critics take their cues from Tim Gunn?

James Schuyler in the Spotlight
BY Eric Ziegenhagen
A New York School poet with a flair for the dramatic.

The Poetry of Autumn
BY Annie Finch
Forget spring. Fall is the season for poetry.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby
BY Eileen Myles, CA Conrad
Human. Animal. Gay. Straight. Poetry.

Ten Poems I Love to Teach
BY Eric Selinger
Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond.

Twice-Told Tales
BY Tess Taylor
Laurie Sheck and Dan Beachy-Quick re-write the classics.

Lives of the Poets: Laura Jensen
BY Heidi Broadhead
Tacoma, Washington's reclusive genius.

Nicholson Baker Talks Poetry
BY Jesse Nathan
Can a novel capture contemporary poetry's (dour, curmudgeonly) zeitgeist?

In Search of the Auden Martini
BY Rosie Schaap
How to make a cocktail beautiful, humanizing, and good.

Lives of the Poets: Rodrigo Toscano
BY Jason Boog
Meet the radical.