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"I don't call it political poetry, I call it human rights poetry."—Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko on his own work.

"His demise is a great loss for me."—Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei sends condolences following death of poet.

Robert Hass' political turn.

Poet and professor Jon Anderson dies.

The "poor man's ballet": 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems.

Shortlist for TS Elliot prize announced.

The publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works drives one writer to verse.

Homer: Best poet ever?

War poetry today: "Most of the poets I know would think twice before setting a mousetrap, let alone enlisting for active service."

Diarist of 37.5 million words dies; also wrote 1,200 poems. How many were good?

Ted Hughes, environmentalist.

Saddle up for cowgirl poetry (lasso not included).

More war and poetry: Staff Sgt. Lawrence E. Dean II, YouTube celebrity.

Not so raw veteran: Marvin Bell, septuagenarian.

Does Derek Walcott have a sense of humor?

Rainbows in the clouds: more potent than you think.

Auden's 1947 "reactionary tract": "Encamped upon the college plain / Raw veterans already train."

Some of Lydia Davis's short stories are the length of poems.

"Change is not always progress": Olson doc-maker Henry Ferrini.

"I am here!": Nikki Giovanni headlines Miami book fair.

Adrienne Rich's Telephone in the Labyrinth: Take a message for Daedalus.

Where did the phrase "with all deliberate speed" come from?

Bobbleheads: You now have a voice!

Federal judge defines poetry in the case of the two Dorothy Parkers.

Czech, mate. Post-Velvet Revolution poets in London.

Neglected no longer: Anne Stevenson awarded $200,000 lifetime achievement award from Lannan Foundation.

"I mean a kind of awe / attending the spaces between us": Jane Cooper, 83, has died.

Self-styled "lyrical terrorist" first woman found guilty under new British terror laws.

Bizarre love triangle: Gamel Woolsey, poet, feminist novelist, lover of Llewelyn Powys.

Five years later: A look at the Poetry Foundation.

No DVD residuals for poets?

For Beowulf boom, add Angelina.

Strand and Hass: "We suffer / the sickness of self."

Proletarian versifier "churns out poems at an industrial rate."

Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Margaret Thatcher.

Tell Magic: Yeats can get you some action.

Beowulf: Out of the fire, onto the movie screen.

Beginning to see the lighght: An interview with Aram Saroyan.

Dante's Paradiso: Low on human interest, high on exhilaration.

"A storyteller's hope": David Mason renders the Ludlow Massacre in verse.

Rod Smith bakes a "strawberry surprise."

"Hlahla! Hloufish lauflings lafe uf beloght lauchelorum!": Two works capture the Russian avant-garde.

New Jersey poet laureate post still missing: Amiri Baraka lawsuit goes unreviewed.

Voicing Emily: three sopranos resurrect the Bard of Amherst.

Water the veggies, pull some weeds, write some poems at the Wave Poetry Farm.

Good fences make good paranoids?: Donnie Darko director's latest merges Philip K. Dick with Robert Frost.

"Words spat out in a fever": The legacy of the Karmel sisters, Holocaust survivors.

Joe Torre haiku (part of a long tradition).

New MacArthur genius Peter Cole lets poem percolate "eight or nine years" before realizing he needs to translate it.

Robert Hass wins National Book Award.

Native speaker: N. Scott Momaday nabs National Medal of Arts.

All aboard for train poems.

Ron Padgett: No weirdo nerd.

Philip Schultz: The difference between a failure and a nobody.

Quoth the Raven: That's pretty studly.

Which great American poet did Lafayette hug?

"You are Whitman, you are Poe...": And you, sir, are Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Susan Gillis: More poems about baggage and food.

Continuing coverage of the Hass-meister.

Sure it's propaganda, but it's our propaganda!

Will Beowulf make poetry hot Hollywood property?

"America invented jazz....The English do poetry."

Revolutionary road: New Pound bio gets it right.

. . . which has nothing to do with him having to eat his own dog.

James Fenton wants every scrap of T.S. Eliot . . .

Surface tension: Frances Leviston's "superb" debut.

The holiday season is upon us—time to get poetry books for the little ones.

Landis Everson, who won the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, was found dead on Saturday.

Oh captain my—you gotta be kidding: Bad Poets Society..

Wordsworth + Stevens = Hass.

Standing room only for Che poetry announcement.

Back-door man: Jim Harrison on Bukowski.

Wordsworth's "moral hydraulics."

Chicago's Achy Obejas: "Some sort of ghost self."

Maxim creator Felix Dennis: The bard of Mustique?

A Bloomsbury poet passes away.

The outsider: The improbable legacy of William Blake.

Into the mystic: Prince Charles and Camilla visit Rumi's tomb.

"From your bright sparkling Eyes, I was undone": When presidents write poetry.

Earrings—or poems?

Stein's way: Janet Malcolm's Two Lives.

Three-way tie for first: National Book Critics Circle's '07 recommendations include Bang, Pinsky.

The meaning of Beowulf.

What are the critics reading?

Third time's a charm: Don Domanski nabs Canadian award.

"Dirty war" memories: Cervantes Prize to Argentine poet.

"A gentle, sweet guy": Landis Everson, RIP.

Spain spends thousands on fragile García Lorca MS.

The mystery of the poetic tombstone.

Shades of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Writing with a chopstick.

Home on wry: Bukowski digs get landmark status.

Mlinko on Ashbery: "The ideal poetry for the Information Age is a poetry of no information."