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Poetry News: 30 Most Recent Entries

11.06.09

Lumpy Corral rounds up most neglected poets of the 20th century.

Women writers righting wrongs.

Admirable lines? Verse from a thighmaster.

Pinsky on the Simpsons and other concerns.

King of Poetry?

Gallaher on Young invention.

Poetry Palin comparison.

11.05.09

Detroit students ford poetic passes.

Vital Sassoon.

Buying Bolaño.

Mourning Francisco Ayala.

Poetry now a social networking tool! (It wasn't before?)

BBC talk with South African poets Keorapetse Kgositsile and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.

On A New Literary History of America.

How do those poetic feet look in cowboy boots?

11.04.09

In London, a Dantesque dither.

Pinsky finds Yeats between incantation and conversation.

"A capricious anomaly in a sea of space," indeed: Michael Jackson's poetry.

UK likely to win splendid little war over Sassoon papers.

Karr talk.

Wait—Keats died?

LA is slammin'.

Poet: forget me not, fickle readers.

11.03.09

The Waste Land left him wasted.

When Ashbery met Freilicher.

Finally, an update on Tam O’Shanter’s Augustan Digression.

“The street suddenly disappeared, political systems evaporated, the day became timeless, I met eternity, poetry woke up”: Zagajewski on Rilke.

Poetry speaks. But will it speak to you, o Interweb?

The Sweeney sweep.

To the Poemobile! (Whoamobile.)

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