News Archive

Is "Paul Revere's Ride" hogwash?

States of the art: new books by Parini and Paulin.

Florian Crever, legally blind poet.

Spam as poetry, round XXVIII.

Lutes, Arabic, and "rubber soldiers": Early influences on Brazil's Jorge Tufic.

Brake for moose—and Frost.

Gitmo, through the looking glass: Lewis Carroll cited in critique of Bush administration defense.

Boglands bard: Collecting Moses Teggart.

Giddyup, Yeats! Poet was a fan of westerns.

Nick Flynn—occupation: Poet.

The houseguest: When Pound stayed with the William Carlos Williamses.

"I wish I had never had to write it": Widower wins award.

Andrew Motion to chair something or other in UK.

Happy birthday, Wislawa Szymborska.

What W.H. Auden did all winter.

Voices carry: Alan Shapiro's Old War.

Bits and bobs heading south? Time to read Larkin, the bard of old age.

MySpace! Tila Tequila! Reality TV! Poetry!

Wyndham Lewis's naughty Eliot portrait goes up at last.

Is Isaac Rosenberg "the greatest of war poets"? Plus: a 1922 review of Rosenberg's poems.

Mahmoud Darwish: sarcasm in the name of sanity.

Nikki Giovanni to join songster duo in New York.

"Always rising from the ashes not returning to the earth": White Stripes' frontman praises Motor City in poem.

In the MUDe: John Redmond kicks into high gear.

"I Sent My Son To War": a mother's lament.

Show of hands: Who knows what a bonefolder is?

Poetry in Seattle—umbrellas provided.

Revolutionary ode: When Wordsworth and Coleridge joined forces.

Idaho poet William Studebaker feared dead.

Graves robber: Did poet steal work from Laura Riding Jackson?

British laureateship, or What Would Marilyn Chin Do?

Pakistan's Khatir Ghaznavi, RIP: bilingual poet.

Poetry is where the dough is—literally.

Making something happen: Marilyn Chin a candidate for California laureateship.

"Female Player"?: Poem emerges in murder case.

Karuta-crazy: Japanese poem game a hit in China.

How special is British poetry? A computer called Otto knows.

All in the family: Neruda's mistress—his wife's niece—reveals 14 new poems.

Thomas Disch, RIP: Multitalented science fiction author and Poetry contributor "wrote a series of poems on grammar, for which he was a stickler, including one on auxiliary verbs."

Whither Poetry? (the Australian version.)

Chalk it up to poetry!

Arabic Prince of Poets show to feature Egyptian singing star.

Unofficial Nassau County laureate on "Trumped up" beach.

Will 2nd Verse do for poetry what Spellbound did for spelling bees?

Pleased to meat me: August Kleinzahler.

The "Crown Prince of Terror": Bin Laden's son pens anti-U.S. poem.

Autistic 14-year-old—and aspiring filmmaker—wins poetry contest.

Something fishy about Brazilian poet.

Aram Saroyan: revisiting the minimal years. (Read our piece on Saroyan.)

Should it be about pleasure?

Alan Shapiro, talking in eternity.

That's not Petrarch's skull!

Steve Dalachinsky: "a bunch of poems written by some old Jewish guy watching some black guy play jazz."

Newly published 1947 Frost speech to Dartmouth students has "anecdotes, stories, jokes, funny little disses on his contemporaries."

Jonathan Williams tribute set for Saturday.

Celebrating John Clare.

Is Selima Hill "the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry since Sylvia Plath"?

Ginsberg and India, or materialism vs. poverty.

Influences on the early Celan?

Who was George Colburn? Mysterious 19th-century poet stumps Scotland.

Gabriela Jauregui looks around the world for humanity's "bad games"—and finds the U.S. situation urgent.

Poets, musicians at One Square Meter.

Are you a writer under 30? See if you're on the Dylan Thomas prize list.

Antigona's tale: Poet Kate Clanchy writes about her cleaning lady.

Brazil's Humberto de Campos: Young Turk?

"You write love letters/in Minoan script": Patchwork and tradition in New European Poets.

All roads lead to Rome in Posthumous Keats.

Charles Van Doren to speak on Dickinson.

Whr rt th rmeo? Your life story, via texting.

Stanley Fish: Why Milton matters.

Appointment of Gloucester poet laureate causes controversy.

India: Tragic case of boy thrashed to death for love poem to upper-caste girl.

"I had more reputation once he left me. I worked harder": The ballad of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell.

Responses to William Logan's review of Frank O'Hara's Selected Poems.

Shades of "Footprints"? Reinhold Neibuhr and the Serenity Prayer.

"Come, see what you've done to your people": A reader pens verse versus Mugabe.

The ambiguous south: New Zealand poetry roundup.

Let it reign: Simon Callow's one-man Shakespeare sonnet show.

Company repackages online German poetry anthology, gets sued.

"Even during farm chores, villagers can be seen carrying a pen and paper with them if the inspiration strikes."

Scottish mystery poet's identity solved. Next up: Who was foreman platelayer James Watt?

Portugal papers: "A poet doesn't write with the idea of selling his papers, least of all Pessoa."

Has contemporary poetry lost its rhythm?

Shock jocks—no! Poetry—yes!

Former Black Flag singer and Nietzsche quoter Henry Rollins: poet—or anti-poet?

"If one is hurt, none will be able to rest": What a 13th-century Iranian poet can teach us about the perils of torture.

Faith and "wistful longings": Ruth Pitter and C.S. Lewis.

Again, dangerous visions: Celebrating Hannah Weiner.

"U is for Unbearable": Wendy Cope writes "The ABC of the BBC."

We can't print the name of Robert Burns's chair!

A Phone Call to the Future author Mary Jo Salter looks to the past as an editor of the Norton Anthology.

Slam poetry for the environment—with a boost from Robert Redford.

A "slow drip" no longer: Kay Ryan named U.S. laureate.

What if Philip Seymour Hoffman starred in a movie based on a Meghan O'Rourke poem?

Cornelius Eady: border disputes and the brutal imagination.

Alfred Arteaga, RIP: Berkeley prof and poet.

New poet laureate Kay Ryan: "I love clichés because they are usually so beautiful."

Nancy Galbraith, RIP: former head of Library of Congress's Poetry and Literature Center.

Amazon "says uncle," as it runs out of Kay Ryan books.

"Every secret happiness and every hidden sin": Alberto Manguel's Homer.

Andrew Motion's library plan: genealogy and more.

John Murray and the lost Byron manuscript.

Hold on to your hats—it's the R.S. Thomas festival!

Dress your poems in dinosaurs and corduroy: Q&A with Simon Armitage.

Lumley's intro to anthology is absolutely fabulous—unless you like "modern poetry."

Samudra Gupta, RIP: Indian journalist, poet, and freedom fighter.

Nick Laird: When poets meet astronomers.

A.N. Wilson on Rilke and the question of poetic prose.

Today is Hart Crane's birthday.

Does no one want to be U.K. laureate?

Ryan Adams turns to verse.

Edward Thomas: Hack turned poet—and WWI casualty.

Circulation up at "Pravda of Britain"—thanks to poetry column.

Getting personal: Where Frances Richey, Sylvia Plath, and James Frey overlap.

Dear Fernando, Dear Aleister: Pessoa correspondence to go on the block?

Walk a New York mile in Dylan Thomas's shoes.

Yeats 2.0: "Living documents" go on exhibit, and visitors can turn the virtual pages.

Radovan Karadzic: Serbian War Criminal, Poet.

"Unlike last time, this documentary has been washed clean of all controversies": A New Film on Bhima Bhoi.

'What More Could a Feller Ask": Cowboy Poetry in Bothell, WA.

The Straits: An Epic Poem of the Motor City.

Dylan Thomas in all his "shameless glory".

A "new" William Carlos Williams poem at Southeast Missouri State.

Youth Speaks poets roil Kennedy Center.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church; Emily Dickinson kept it re-writing the hymnal.

A rose by any other name: Lesbians lose court battle.

Poet banned in Beijing but still fighting for Tibet.

Indiana Center for the Book nominates poetry nobodies.

Simon Callow's Shakespeare "best when bitter and baffled."

"I became a sound poet in giving birth": Penn Kemp honored.

No need for an MFA: an anthology of autodidacts.

Bend it like Beowulf, just don't call it poetry.

Great great great granddaughter of Wordsworth likes flowers too.

Sustainable slam poetry with the Sundance Kid.

The year of Zbigniew Herbert goes multimedia.

August Kleinzahler will punch you in the face.

More Eliot-inspired vandalism.

Never one to hold a grudge, city of Florence considers ending Dante's banishment.

The science of alliteration.

Making outer space safe for human settlement, poetry mags.

Freak-folk Natalie Portman paramour also loves Patchen.

Anthology a doorway to "understanding the gay Christian soul."

Oakland Vandal Mis-quotes Eliot.

First lady pats goats, reads poems at Sandburg estate.

Don Draper and Frank O'Hara have lunch.

Poetry in the 21st century: "A re-emergence of heart, if you will, but not necessarily a severing of the head."

Madison DJ gets the word out.

Plattsburgh's got it going on: the International Haiku Festival.

Poetry pigeon races in the outback.

"I was wrong about so many things": Mimi White's The Last Island.

Dove, Eagle, Lion, Penguin: Jose Garcia Villa now a classic.

"Potato, onion, carrot and scrag-end of lamb": Arvon celebrates forty years of teaching (and poet's stew).

Volver a Casa: Alejandro Aura is dead.

The poet assassinated (or jailed with Picasso, anyway).

The trials of the Father of Modernismo's sword.

Chilean poet nabs Neruda award.

Death comes for the young Romantics. Lucky for them.

Dickinson and Higginson, the dormouse and the radical.