News Archive

Hoofing it: New Yorker's Muldoon reads from Horse Latitudes.

Chinh Huu: Nonprolific but respected revolutionary poet dies.

Singapore's Cyril Wong on American poetry: More nose hairs!

"Poetry needs to be rescued from among our duties and restored to our pleasures": Philip Larkin.

Lowell vs. Ashbery—who would win???

Everything Ted Hughes wrote about, he freed from cliché.

Something in the water?: Laureate Motion hails poets of Northern Ireland.

García Lorca in Iran, where "choosing the wrong heroes can have frightening consequences."

Size matters in Buddhist poet Philip Whalen's collected work.

Troy Jollimore on John Ashbery: The temptation of convention.

Robert Duncan called him "the Poet King": Remembering the life of Landis Everson. (For more on Everson, read our 2006 profile.)

From time capsule, poem by Wordsworth's second cousin.

What do you do if Laura Riding Jackson tells you to ditch poetry?

Pinsky on his Colbert Report appearance, poetry contests, and more.

Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916-2007: Novelist, critic, and wife of Robert Lowell.

Angela Ball: the poem as divorce.

Have you smelled roses where there were no roses? You have if you've been reading Rumi. Also: listening to archival poetry.

Exulting in wild weather: Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes's correspondence.

What's so funny? Rhyme about shooting victim makes London bomb conspirator grin.

The playful side of George Johnston (hint: it involves cats).

Shy aspiring poets and budding sports journalists find oasis at U. Penn's Kelly Writers House.

Invitation to a beheading: UK's "lyrical terrorist" sentenced.

Will NYC subway conductors start reciting Dickinson?

Wordsworth vs. Lear—who would win???

Reading Love Is a Dog From Hell in Tehran.

I'm down, or, Philip Larkin pens a pop song.

A rather chatty article about New Zealand's new poetry PR chick—make that poet laureate.

"He feared for his reason": How the writings of a suicidal 26-year-old were brought into print.

Pen name Soselo: Stalin as poet.

"I get very political": Gloria Mindock forces us to think about El Salvador's civil war.

Do teachers need to know more than "Jabberwocky."

'Twas the night before literary forensics: Figuring out the author of famed Christmastime verse.

Between recognition and oblivion: Poetry's celebrity system and the underappreciated Michael O'Brien.

"The luscious fumbled chase": New work by Frances Leviston and three others.

Mining the news: Did a documentary inspire a Larkin poem?

Da Chen says Chinese poets used booze as muse. (Bonus: the reporter's name is "Donna Liquori.")

Poems on polystyrene: Andrew Motion on Guantánamo.

Copyright wrongs: Unless you're Milton, your work is vulnerable.

I smoke a joyride knuckle: The pleasures of spam.

Think outside the box: cubicle jargon can be poetic.

Helen Vendler "laudably refuses to discard the monumental figures of English poetry."

Joshua Clover on Rod Smith: "If the social existence of poetry were the London Tube, Smith would be Paddington Station."

Wallace Stevens, knotty by nature.

New play mixes Russian poet with Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Seventeen year later, Dorianne Laux's Awake reawakens.

Táin-ted love: Ciaran Carson's new translation of the Irish epic.

"Like Yellowstone National Park": Whalen's legacy.

Sense and nonsense in teaching poetry: the debate continues.

Evalyn Katz Shapiro, RIP: Wife, promoter, and editor of Karl.

Should Lorca's bones be studied?

Reading Gawain again.

From Bucky Sinister to Michelle Tea: Stephen Elliott remembers SF's slam scene.

Robinson Jeffers censored by liberals!

A pair of "backyard poets."

Anne Stevenson: "the prizes are rolling in."

Diane Wood Middlebrook, biographer of Anne Sexton, dies.

At last—a documentary on Hyam Plutzik. Who? Read on . . .

Holzer in Boston: Like watching the Star Wars prologue on IMAX.

On the other hand: Vote Yevtushenko!

Which would you vote for? Poetry or Prose?

The world according to Afaa Michael Weaver.

Was Pound's modernist push akin to selling snake oil?

Art House: exhibiting in Lorca's home.