News Archive

Nice work if you can get it: Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore writes a novel about a poet.

WWI poet Marcel Martinet: runner-up to Proust and a lifelong refuser of "making it."

"Here the highest fantasy lost its power": Alberto Manguel on Dante's big one.

Proust was a neuroscientist? Yeah, and Whitman was a chiropractor!

Kilpatrick sticks it to Edward Thomas (1878-1917)!

No minor talent: a talk with Major Jackson.

Wake up! A.N. Wilson leads us through Larkin's "Aubade."

New Pinsky: Don't worship his new poems—consult them.

Charles Simic's no nature boy.

Soused poet climbs dangerous cliff for inspiration? Only in Pengshui, kids—only in Pengshui.

Did an "artifact-smuggling syndicate" nick a Tagore medallion?

Hey, buddy—how much do you want for that Mary Oliver ticket?

Are video games poetry?

Laugh-in: The wit of Kenneth Koch, X.J. Kennedy, and Brad Leithauser.

Kevin Young: "I'm not the bloggiest of people."

Milton! Milton! Milton!

Pink-like Pound: He's not that complicated, he's just misunderstood.

"Mary Had a Little Lamb": Based on a true story.

Natasha Tretheway: "A dam that burst."

It's 2008. Time for a 14th-century poem "denouncing ruling institutions in France"!

Catching up with Maya Angelou.

"I only see the money when I write what's wrong": The quatrains of All $tar.

Carol Ann Davis: bloom and loss.

Go East: rediscovering Claudel and Segalen

Loading the canon: Elizabeth Bishop joins the Library of America.

Did an Irish poet, known for his work with the poor, sexually exploit them?

Mary Oliver: The new Seinfeld?

Oh la la: Carla Bruni does Dickinson.

Red letter daze: Joshua Cohen talks to Alexander Skidan.

The return of Melissa Green: Pinsky, Walcott, and others at BU tribute.

Poet? Storyteller? Who is Major Jackson?

Roundup: Books by Maggie Nelson, Tony Towle, and more.

Sabotage, on the job: Why not turn it into poetry?

Poems for Palestine and Lebanon: Writing as revolution.

Ted Hughes influenced Simon Armitage. Now Armitage joins T.H.-centric charity.

Trans slam: Kit Yan.

Staging the life of Ogden Nash with his poems.

"When will you get famous, so we can get out of here?": Robert Creeley.

Will the storied Académie française admit an Englishman?

Thrifty, nifty Emily: Susan Howe's Dickinson book republished.

Valentine's Day approaches—and lovers start trolling websites for verse.

Eye to eye with Li-Young Lee.

We're not Donne with the idea of giving poems for Valentine's Day.

Hey Mom—can you send me an "I love you" poetry e-card?

Gatekeeping in the post-Mapplethorpe age: We want our "Howl"!

Don't stand so close to me: Poetry is contagious.

All done with your Horace translation? Time to check out the Stephen Spender Prize rules.

Cathal O Searcaigh investigated for underaged trysts.

Natasha Trethewey: Southern but not Faulkneresque.

What if Poetry had the circ of Ladies' Home Journal?

A.N. Wilson on the violence of Plath.

Poetry editor Wiman's essays hit "like a hard and fast blow to the center of your chest."

Mary Oliver in L.A.: The sold-out tour continues.

Burmese acrostics dampened!

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: a Mick Jagger of the taiga.

Two roads—toads? coats?—diverged in a yellow wood (mood?): deciphering Frost.

John Hollander: Eagles muse, Poetry Out Loud judge.

Anne Carson at NYU: "It's only three pages, but it will seem endless."

"Does spring come to these stripped lands?'': Remembering Korea's Lee Sang, whose work was confiscated by the Japanese.

George Galloway: MP—and inspiration for a Bedouin poet?

Obama talks—instant poetry?

Let's hear it for "Howl": Earliest recording found.

Rachel Aviv talks to Samuel Menashe, who once baited Philip Roth.

Murder in Bali—and poems could be evidence.

Wooing 101 syllabus: The Koose. (But what did Debra Winger think when she read: "the little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers"?)

Ben Stein and Ezra Pound: "His words on usury, or ultra-high-interest lending and borrowing, come to mind as I contemplate the subprime problems that face this great nation."

Space Walk "Sleighs" the judges of $100K prize.

Sinister nursery rhymes: rereading the doomed Alun Lewis.

Zealous polemics: Rita Wong.

"Ballad" to VT killer gets MySpacer in trouble.

Love a good double dactyl? You're in luck!

Richard Kenney hammers out lines like "bell of the brass world whanged."

Oh come on, let's give Macca a break!

Who wants pesky roses? Your sweetie's going to love the poem you wrote for her. The one you're about to start. Better get cracking, buddy.

A stay in Saginaw gets Garrison Keillor thinking on a Roethke wavelength.

"My particular truth": Gwendolyn Brooks's gift.

Frost: insight into poems, frequent jokes.

Translating Faustus: reopening the Coleridge-Goethe case.

The searchers: Top online love poems.

Excitement in Edinburgh: Lines of a wee Scottish lass win her class a zoo trip.

Sword's words: N.Z. poets nab teaching prizes.

By day: paint delivery man. By night: bard of Marlborough.

From prisoner to revolutionary pachuco poet.

Experimental post-avant word-forms . . . or children's toys?

Divertimento: Listening to the last thing Brodsky listened to before exile.

It's Valentine's Day—time for a poetry throwdown!

Chinese whispers: Eliot Weinberger edits new anthology.

Poetry and Motion: Brit laureate's childhood memoir.

Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, the bard of "small smouldering things."

Poet laureates everywhere!

"I'd rather crawl in a hole than call you darling, though you are": six decades of Toronto writer's yearly Valentine's Day poems for hubby.

"Dearest Mother": I might have borrowed this poem.

Interesting historical fact of the day: Li-young Lee's great-grandfather was the first president of China.

Stephen Burt (which is his name) on Robert Creeley.

Oxford American embezzler caught.

Library of America canonizes Bishop.

Ireland's education minister weighs in on Cathal O Searcaigh scandal.

Erotic poetry can jeopardize your job: "Antonio Love," assistant principal.

Circling the hole: Lee Sharkey writes—for sanity's sake.

America wants more bush poems.

Jen Hadfield: "porridge-coloured longjohns."

The Clash on the Sand: Poet-shaikh's work inspire film.

Dickinson as mantra.

If you're in Poland right now, you're in the year of Zbigniew Herbert.

Bukowski house set for landmarking—just don't use the sink.

Prison break: Almodovar to film story of Marcos Ana.

Romancing the Scone: Hugh MacDiarmid.

Amiri Baraka on Barack Obama.

Pinsky on Elizabeth Bishop: from bait shops to the Library of America.

Vendler's Yeats and "moral urgency."

David Orr's a Modern lover: On Matthea Harvey.

Arun Kale, RIP: poet and politician.

Update on the detained Burmese acrostic poet.

The iceman cometh: Randall Maggs's Homeric take on a legendary goalie.

Melancholy hedonist: Helen Dunmore's latest novel brings Catullus to life.

Mary had a little lamb—and then two men allegedly tried to burn down her house.

In wake of sex scandal, will Ireland education minister remove Cathal Ó Searcaigh from curriculum?

Dana Gioia poems in chamber music performance.

Campbell McGrath: The virtues of collecting.

Maybe he can write a poem about those car alarms next.

Adonis speaks out against Arab boycott.

Bill Manhire, New Zealander ready for happy accidents.

She took Bunny's virginity: Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Billy Collins connects with Kerouac?

Obscure objects: Richard Kenney wants you to like him now.

Indiana jones: the story behind the Tipton Poetry Journal.

Precise and urgent: new work from Frances Levitson and Sarah Maguire.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly: the opposite of slick.

Vietnam vet Walt Nygard leads poetic protest against current war.

"And the day was plucked and / tasted bitter": Early Larkin like young Yeats?

Letters from a multi-instrumentalist: David Hajdu on Nathaniel Mackey.

Frost unplugged: Poet's Dartmouth lectures seeing print.

August Kleinzahler on the restless, risk-taking Robert Creeley.

"Our culture today is mainly embarrassed about country things": Wendell Berry talks farming and poetry.

Richard Kenney: back to basics.

3,182 lines of unrhymed alliterative Old English? We call it box office gold.

What did Omar Khayyam mean by "the moving finger"?

Nick McDowell points out Milton's good bits.

A life cut short: Plaque goes up for Irish poet killed in the Spanish Civil War.

Poetry makes something happen.

Do you remember Saginaw? Call this number.

Fernando Perez: Tampa Bay Rays prospect—and Hejinian fan.

Slamming in Chicago: "You cheer like Elvis isn't really dead!"

Bukowski wouldn't have liked to see "little Bukowskis running around."

Arf! The lapdog in poetry.

Don't say "about": Late Ashbery.

At Bard, finance over Frost?

Pinsky says farewell: The last "Poet's Choice."

No work involved: Robert Bly becomes Minnesota's first poet laureate.

Ontario Review editor Raymond Smith, RIP.

Hmm . . . poems, podcasts, video . . . could it be poetryfoundation.org? Or is it the new website for Prince Edward Island poets?

Jill Starishevsky: Making "good" money from poetry?

Bill Knott book has a message for booksellers: "Please sell these and keep the money—or give them away free—or toss them out as trash—"

The disappeared: Granddaughter of Argentine poet Juan Gelman wants killers found.

William C. Wright: a nonagenarian reflects.

Memories can't wait: Recite a 50-line poem—no peeking.

The sweet science—poetry fodder? Oscar de la Hoya's trainer declines to compose.

Haiku and you II: a greener way of writing.

Albert Carey Caswell, unofficial congressional poet laureate.

"It is very little, but it does big things": Haiku and you.

Op-ed pages could use some poetry—agree/disagree?