News : April 2006 : The Poetry Foundation

Like "a tribute album in which half of the contributors are covering the same song.”—Greil Marcus on The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later.

Composing poems for Amsterdam's unmourned dead.

If you give candy with poems, will the poems seem sweeter?

Leslie Norris, famed Welsh poet, dies.

Sprucing up the Wordworth museum.

R.T. Smith, writing poems in which “people use power tools for things they weren’t intended for.”

Two male poets with women on the brain.

Communist flip-flop: Chinese government closes, then re-opens, poetry Web site.

Publishers Weekly surveys the online poetry world. This poet-blogger offers a corrective.

Lost love poem found too late?

Teen channels Auden, gets kicked out of competition.

“I feel like I meet her every night. She and I have a little routine that we do together here, which I can't really go into, but we spend our time together.”—Amy Iriving, on her latest role, Elizabeth Bishop

If you’re bitten by the “poetry bug,” does it leave a mark?

Pilgrimage to the birthplace of ancient Chinese poet.

“The experience of poetry is necessarily prior to whatever meaning we assign to it.”—David Lehman

At a school for the deaf, kids write poems about loud things: volcanoes and tigers.

Barney Rosset, who first published Beckett in the U.S., remembers their first meeting in a bar. “We didn’t get out of there until 4 in the morning.”

Beckett turns 100. But is he so dark he could he drive a reader to drink? New to our archive, two of his poems. See what you think.

OK, kid, you can say "hell" and "damn," it won't kill anybody.

Frost's former home now a happening museum.

April brings new anthologies, and a Frost for the suburbs.

Statue of poet survives bombings in Baghdad, still holding a glass of wine.

In Burma, students detained for writing poem released.

Poets, hungry for constraint, take up writing fibs.

Cowboy poet’s big-city publication.

A Golden Rose for Ferlinghetti.

All grown up.

Vandals deface poet statue.

Nigeria’s contemporary poets: A generation in search of new idioms.

Seamus Heaney’s noisy new book.

Ten years of the Washington Post Book World’s Poet’s Choice.

"Sneak poems into your day."—Naomi Shihab Nye

Wanted: Poet laureate with talent.

“Anthologies age as badly as fashion, and the pillbox hats and pearls of one generation must give way to the tattoos and tongue studs of another.”—William Logan on The Oxford Book of American Poetry

Reno Op-Ed: "Hell" and "damn" are neither profane nor inappropriate.

Christian Science Monitor National Poetry Month blowout.

Claudia Emerson wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Read her poem "Stable," featured by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in his newspaper column, American Life in Poetry.

Poetry prompts swift, indecisive action from Chinese government.

“At various moments of crises in my own ministry it was to his poetry I turned for both illumination and sustenance."—Archibishop of Wales on poet R.S. Thomas

Wolfpit?

Kidnapped police chief inspires poem.

"If we haven't hit a new low in San Francisco politics with this, we're about to.”

What’s the point of National Poetry Month?

Robert Duncan conference considers late writings.

Googlism: Flarf is held a quiet waters park.

Robert Creeley, Acton’s favorite son.

The other Elvis of poetry.

Actors speak Shakespeare in search of world record.

The Elvis of poetry.