News Archive

Be a cowboy, or just act like one.

Nextbook profiles poet and WWI veteran Siegfried Sassoon, "a decorated, antiwar, half-Jewish homosexual war hero."

On William Everson.

Remembering Langston Hughes.

from the JOURNALS: “i wrote this installment already once today and then for some sick reason pressed ‘don’t save’”

Appeal of parking fine inspires poetic response.

Meanwhile, the unofficial California poem.

Persona poem as identity theft.

No longer.

“Spiritual armor”: Wearing Emily Dickinson.

Never mind the student loans that went for poetry, reimbursing itself with itself.

from the JOURNALS: “all this thinking is not giving me a chance to think!”

Adult Poetry Open Mic Night at Camp Lejeune.

Now we are sick.

Podcasting poems about toads and depression.

Happy birthday William Stafford.

from the JOURNALS: “it was real
and it was nice
but it wasn’t really nice!”

An overtime thriller with the Whittier College Poets.

Can you learn about poetry by playing with a digital deck of cards?

Slavery, love, heaven, death.

"When I see the Grim Reaper coming up the path to my front door I'm going to the bottom of the garden"—Philip Larkin, an homage from the New York Review of Books.

Local boy makes good.

Saddam Hussein writes a poem from his cell.

from the JOURNALS: “So many times, I would sit in the back of the Velvet Lounge and just write to the crazy, awful, beautiful hypnosis of horn spittin’ from the stage.”

Spork’s latest.

Poetry Northwest lives.

from the JOURNALS: “I mean, if we aren’t in some way digging up the truth, then why don’t we all just chuck it in and go into advertising? I hear the pay is a LOT better!”

Poetry Hut Blog posts Muriel Rukeyser’s FBI file.

Kanye West's debt to poetry.

Rita Dove drives home to Akron.

Poet and musician David Berman: “He hates movies and often goes out when the Oscars are on so that he can see others who don’t care about movies.”

Celebration commemorates 100th anniversary of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s death.

Two feuding Indian poets take to the streets. "He has lost his mental balance," says one of the other.

Poems that “arrived as the hard-earned reward of resolved crisis”—Wordsworth recast.

Vietnam celebrates national Poetry Day.

FOUND.

They could be moldering in anyone’s attic.

After the smoke cleared and the cowboys went home.

Wanted: writers for 10,000 poems.

Famous poets, famous lovers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s valentines to her husband.

Oldest love poem ever found. "Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet."

Love isn’t always pretty: Pinsky’s annual valentines.

Read it, pass it along.

Is poetry the new chocolate?

Poetry to be read at Olympics between luge runs.

Beat museum opens in San Francisco. [Reg. req’d]

Via the Wall Street Journal: brokers who turn to poetry.

Hackers decrypt poem using "Trusted Platform Module."

For sale: William Blake watercolors at $17.5 million.

Homer's Ithaca located.

Lucia Perillo wins Kingsley Tufts Award. Christian Hawkey is the Kate Tufts winner.

Song lyrics as state poem? “Hush yo’ mouth.”

The new issue of the New Hampshire Review.

After more than a decade without one, Oregon names a poet laureate.

"Violent clowning and distinctive solemn music." Alan Marshall reviews Geoffrey Hill's latest book.

Plagiarism dust-up between South African poets.

Disintegrating the boundaries: Palattella reviews Anne Carson's Decreation.

At least it's worth something.

The new issue of the Constant Critic, with takes on Daisy Fried, Flarf, and No Planets Strike.

I Wandered Lonely as a Daffodil.

Spider Man to read Wilfred Owen?

After interpreting Walt Whitman, pianist Fred Hersch collaborates with poet Mary Jo Salter.

A poem in the New Yorker is like a song on the radio.

Was Elizabeth Barrett Browning the frail young woman people believe her to be?

”If a pun is good enough for Christ, it’s good enough for me.” Paul Muldoon

Baraka back in the hot seat.

Poetry boyband will wow the girls with verse.

Poem for the personal trainer who never perspires.

Poem for the endangered BlackBerry.

“Children relate to the capriciousness of active language.” Christopher Bantick on Ted Hughes’ poems for children.

The real face of Shakespeare?

Russian poet, Gennady Aigi, dies.

Leonard Unger, poet, critic, and T.S. Eliot expert, dies at 89.

Uncovering the poetry of Janet Frame.

“I never don’t write poetry.”—Stuart Dybek

"Brunei isn't just a country rich with oil and natural resources, but more importantly, it is also rich with its Islamic Malay heritage, ideal kings, and gifted poets."

Modernism full of "deplorable paradoxies" and "straw men."

Keats and Shelley, saved by a jewelry fortune.

“The ‘lost’ are both anonymous and charged with the authority of witness: here, they tell of sacrifice of human life.” Fiona Sampson on Jorie Graham’s Overlord.

Bono receives Neruda award.

Everyone is looking for a good love poem.

Poetry from the frontlines: Iraqi soldier poet Brian Turner profiled here and blogging here.