News Archive

Ask a Poet advice column tackles dinner.

Liverpudlian poet Felicia Hemans gets some respect.

In Baltimore, "The whole enterprise of writing poetry is a de facto folly."

Truth the dead know: Zombie Poetry.

"There once was a player named Manny": Poems for Manny Ramirez.

Fresh faces on the Forward Prize shortlist.

"Any damn fool can chuck a bomb while it takes brains to write a poem."

Dickinson and Higginson: "The fantasy of isolation, the fantasy of intervention."

Tanka against Dubya.

St. Louis' gateway to poetry, Charles Guenther, remembered.

Poets of the Iranian diaspora find a home.

Muldoon's Rackett to rock Bread Loaf.

Brent Cunningham makes a big deal of small presses.

Can't wait for the doping scandal: Poetry as Olympic event.

Wall Street Journal likes New Criticism, still iffy on blogs.

Close listening: the British Library sound archives.

National Poetry Slam kicks off in Madison, WI.

Poetry Hut doubles as verse yurt.

Money balks at Shange's Colored Girls.

Iron John in Turkey.

The crumbling manuscripts of Timbuktu.

Stotty 'n' Spice cake revisited: A new language book by the late Bill Griffiths.

A Gloucester profile of Susanne Dubroff.

Lonely as a cloud vs. Lonely Planet: Wordsworth's guide to the Lake District.

Tao Lin's Freakonomics.

Alternating Afrikaans and English: new South African poetry.

"The enemy is paraphrase": Shakespeare and the brain.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not Patti Smith's.

Chopped hogs and blank pages: Sturgis verse.

The operatic Emily Dickinson in San Jose.

Pasties and poetry share a bed in Brooklyn's verse brothel.

From Sanskrit to "readable English": Ancient India's finest gets a new translation.

Finns suspect politics at play in Russia's poetry selections.

Nothing says "bio-terrorism" like bad poetry.

Cowboy poetry in Prescott, Arizona (Gunslinger not included).

From Eliot to Indie-Rock: David Brooks harumphs about intellectual cool.

The long black line turns three: new book's on the anniversary of Katrina.

Wendy Cope on Desperate Housewives, Mamma Mia!, Bach, and Madame Bovary.

Inverse of the normative iamb for president!

His name was writ in water, his bio by Stanley Plumly.

You must change your life: business class poetry.

First, Fady Joudah does no harm.

Huff Po listens in on the National Poetry Slam.

Gender performance, orthography, and grief: a profile of Sun Yung Shin.

Frank O'Hara's second emergency.

Adoration, adultery, and alcohol: the diary of Dylan Thomas' wife.

"State" funeral for Palestine's national poet.

Synesthesia, I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins.

The wind shifts for Latino poetry.

No sex please, we're canonical British writers.

Osip Mandelstam, bronzed.

Brenda Wineapple chats up Dickinson and Higginson.

Wallace Stevens' "ultimate elegance" debated in comments.

"Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self.": Obama's poet mentor.

Dylan to Caitlin inscription fetches big bucks.

Angel tells Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Write!"

Real emotional trash: life and art offer the same thing to the brain.

Watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses they're insane.

Celine Dion, Elton John, Simply Red, and Mahmoud Darwish.

The New Republic pesters the dead.

The Persian Gulf celebrates Darwish.

"When [new] criticism looked like winning."

"Life is lonely for a poet in Beirut."

Breakaway poetry in the Caucasus Mountains.

Bobcats maul Cheeseheads: Charlotte takes National Poetry Slam title in Madison.

Angry sentiment dogs TV personality who called Burns' verse "sentimental doggerel."

Expat Iranians find a home in Farsi and English.

Seeking civic-minded poet in Bay Area to inaugurate, Litquake.

Greatness has a posse.

Darwish laid to rest in Ramallah.

Amherst, Homer and Moab: Travel advice for Kay Ryan.

Well, pilgrim, time to shove on to Nether Stowey.

"I am not a Critic but an inexperienced young Woman": Lord Byron's groupies.

Scottish poet goes down the tube.

Tracking the Sarah Jessica Parker Effect.

The 2012 London Olympics? Less Shakespeare, more Carlos Acosta.

Eulogy for the late adopter.

Why does arts education eat only bitter herbs?

Brits take the Rubaiyat challenge.

Patients get the Poetry Treatment.

The def poets of the mead hall re-issued.

Memory stick stolen, tranquil recollection on hold.

"The pages in the book are blank": Weldon Kees lost and found.

Mohamed Ould Bemba is the Prince of Poets.

ESL surrealism in Olympic China.

Minnesota ladies have penchant for poetry.

"Out Loud" in Alabama.

"Is this the dumbest (question) ever?"

Arts organizations baffled by Canadian cutbacks.

The new cryptographers: translating ancient text one click at a time.

The poetry of Banjo Paterson.

His back pages: The long lost poems of Bob Dylan.

Darwish haunts Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

You blurb mine, I'll blurb yours.

"The last summer of innocence" in Lowell's vacation-land.

The changing light at Water Street: James Merrill's open house.

"Writing towards an idea" with Sebastian Matthews.

Smart Set nominates Catullus for the non-canon.

Henry Poole's story begins with poetry.

A history of slam poetry from the inside out.

Whattup, epithalamion?

Vandals stir up new interest in Frost.

Shakespeare's music of the mind.

Halfway to a hundred, the material girl gets a poem.

"As a rapper, I sucked": Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic.

Poet, pamphleteer, and patriot: John Milton turns 400.

Indian pol turns public life into poems via Blackberry.

UK Olympic pugilist inspired by soppy love poetry.

The complete Korean works of William Shakespeare.

"These poems are really sepia-toned": An interview with Joel Toledo.

"Why do I write poetry? Ha! Ha! Ha!" An interview with D.C. Chambial.

Muffin men and the poetry bookshop: The letters of Penelope Fitzgerald.

Cowboy poetry at Devils Tower.

"After the Ban" wins Vital Synz poetry prize.

Verse for Cubbies wins Good 'Ol Days Festival.

Mental health days for Dylan Thomas, Ben Stiller, Sylvia Plath, and Spike Milligan.

Jersey poets read beside painting of red wheel barrow, white chickens.

Joy Harjo's Arrow Dynamics under the stars.

Coney Island of the Mind better than Six Flags of the Spleen.

The Fugs still killing for peace.

In defense of sentimental doggerel.

Collected, selected, the upshot and the open road: a UK poetry roundup.

Australian poet "the type of person targeted by internet fraudsters."

"All my memories begin with 'we'": An interview with Dannie Abse.

Author autographs signed, sealed, delivered.

Belle and Sebastian and Simon Armitage.

Texas university presses for dummies.

London: the destination vacation for pasty, bookish, shut-ins.

Ed Lahey and the blind horses of Arizona.

"Authentic, positive urban arts" from Seattle's Laura "Piece" Kelley.

Debt consolidation, cheap Viagra, and the Pulitzer Prize?

"Lift me up, for I am dying": Keats and the body poetic.

25 years on, Zyzzyva's still got that zing.

A big, bold Bloodaxe anthology celebrates 30 years of UK verse.

The science of test tube poetics.

Poet John Mackie sets the sea to music.

Cowboy poetry gets its learn on.

Pinsky to preside over Shakespeare Society songfest.

Sid Yiddish and the Bathroom Poetry Project.

Identity hyphenated and happy.

Blazing the Ted Hughes Trail.

Middlebury College mending walls at Frost residence.

Police shut down Darwish memorial in Jerusalem.

Canada's arts brought down to earth.

"We forget the bullets and we enter a different world": Listening to Baghdad's lyrics.

An illustrated guide to Machado's Spain.

Irish poet lambastes political prelate.

Denver's unconventional poetics.

"Libraries, you see, are meant to be fun."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn" and other mini-lit classics.

Percy and Mary: Sleuthing Frankenstein's creator still a shell game.

The transmigration of Ulysses.

The myth and history of W.B. Yeats.

Poetry of the Red Sox and Yankees: "One if by pitch and two if by bat."

Foetry Redux: a small press contest kerfuffle.

Off-the-wall poet Martin Brown sent to Coventry.

Poetry and hip-hop dream of a glorious return to Palestine.

Lyrical Iowa celebrates fallen soldier.

What happens to a poem commodified: Nike's "Dream Deferred."

"In Pakistan, things do not change": An elegy for Ahmed Faraz.

Working for dough at Bread Loaf.

Olympic arts medals re-united "a long-divorced couple—muscle and mind."

Tacoma's news that stays news even when erased.

Poet or MC? Don't sweat the technique.

A Motor City cento.

A look at NOLA's post-Katrina poets.

Is Wordsworth the patron saint of bad poetry?

Poetry enlisted to help soldier through Iraq.

The Tam O'Shanter in the Mirror: Michael Jackson records the poetry of Robert Burns.

"The figment of a book": Parsing the narratives of poetry publication.

Partitioning the arts into tribes at ComiCon.

Gabe and T-Bone bring poetry to cowboy church.

The burlesque poetess asks "Shall it be the sonnet in my brassiere or the ghazal in my garter?"

Forgetting Yuki and other endangered languages.

Canadian writers see government arts cuts as censorship.

An elegy for Ahmed Faraz.

Smarting up the telly with the literary.

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking in Brooklyn.

Poetic architecture in Vancouver.

Maya Angelou on Obama's mother wit.

The Los Angeles Times' autograph gallery.

A profile of print-on-demand in Manchester.

Gold treasure in Euripides' city.

Poetry on the path to recovery.

A Santa Cruz poet remembered.

Memphis kids decorate diner with verse.

The operatic Ted Kooser.

Novelist Elias Khoury remembers Mahmoud Darwish.

What is and what is not Garcia Lorca.