May 2008
New poems by Spencer Reece, Jane Hirshfield, Seth Abramson, Liz Waldner, Sandra M. Gilbert, Cathy Park Hong, and others; notebook by Eavan Boland; exchange between Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan, and more!
Poetry News: 30 Most Recent Entries
05.09.08
Tony Soprano, meet John Donne.
Feeling uninspired? Time to hit those science textbooks.
"I / clean my urine / on the flag / of my country": Mexico fines poet.
Remembering Amal Donqol and Nizar Qabbani and the "Arab narrative of emancipation."
"The rocks we don't anticipate": The found poetry of Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Living with Parkinson's disease turns former teacher to poetry.
05.08.08
May Day 1965: Ginsberg is king.
Poetry in the office: Line breaks instead of coffee breaks?
The ballad of the double hibakusha: living through Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Murder, they wrote: Man accused in poem is acquitted.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: How hip hop is like a sonnet.
Michael Frayn: Boris Pasternak is a poet "even when he is writing prose."
The actors are playing Russian roulette? Why, it's a rare staging of a Shel Silverstein play.
Eric Priestley: Watts poet fights to stay.
05.07.08
Who will perpetuate the shash maqam?: Ilyas Malayev, multilingual Queens poet, dies.
Three for May: Lewis Warsh, Cristina Peri Rossi, and August Kleinzahler.
Which poet thought he resembled "C.S. Lewis on a drugs charge"?
Shrikrishna Kalamb: farmer, poet, suicide.
Day school director steps down.
More Tagore!
Birthday boy Archibald MacLeish's Arizona visit.
Saddam's journals: no remorse—but plenty of love poems.
Dana Gioia: "Nobody tells me they love Bob Dylan because they read the sheet music."
"Two curmudgeonly country boys": Frost and Khruschev, reimagined in fiction.
05.06.08
Something that isn't: Robert Hass talks.
Frances Richey: war poetry for moms.
Good luck with that: Residents of Lesbos want to reclaim their name.
My coffee with Carl: Friend of Sandburg tells all.
05.05.08
Schiller: Losing his head?
Jason Shinder, RIP: Poet, educator, and former Ginsberg assistant.
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American Perspectives:
Edward Hirsch
Thursday, May 15
6:00 PM