News Archive

Poetry in St. Benedict's maintenance department.

A statue for Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi.

Filipinos celebrate the poetry of Captain Bibo.

Turning the poems of Dubai's vice president into good TV.

David Berman as Babar the Elephant.

The poetics of anarchy.

A debt ditty for New Zealanders.

"Nothing is lost in translation except the poetry."

Putting chaos in its place at the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Ted Hughes at home in Yorkshire.

Billy Collins on the trouble with poetry.

Appraising the "old opposites" in the work of Adam Kirsch.

In search of true love off the shelf.

Allowing yourself eddies of meaning: the science of daydreaming.

Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac and the best of YouTube.

A meditation on Lu Tong's "Seven Cups of Tea."

In praise of the age-old chapbook.

"No dictator has ever written good poetry."

John Ashbery as gaudy skyscraper.

British knife crime's latest victim: the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy.

Nicaragua's case against the poet Ernesto Cardenal.

Louise Glück wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award.

Start-up publisher as huckster-visionary.

Perseus offers small presses digital options.

Tracking local bookstores online.

William Carlos Williams turns 125.

Poet rustles up American Cowboy Culture lifetime achievement award.

Emerging female writers win Rona Jaffe awards.

Russia's iron fist pushes deep reading.

Telecom puts British poetry on hold.

How a critic saved John Keats from oblivion.

Robert Pinsky wins Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize.

"His alcoholic raincoat": on Kiwi poet James Baxter.

Inventing Yehuda Amichai.

Poems among items in karoshi (death from overwork) exhibition.

Jeffrey Steele, poet and prophet.

Rude and squalid poets' pub in SoHo faces closure.

Emotion recollected in tranquility? Not so much.

"Noble Savage Confronts Indian Mascot" and other Native American poems.

Pakistan's bureaucrat poet speaks.

Carol Ann Duffy, banned, replies in verse.

The meta-poetry of poetry.

Ditching the Poet Laureate in favor of a Philosopher Royal.

Publishing giant Robert Giroux is dead.

After apple picking, poetry for this New Hampshire farmer.

A look in at Poetry Flash.

BBC Four set to broadcast poetry series Lines in the Landscape.

Society needs poets, however undemocratic.

Dale Smith on poetry in public spaces.

Democrat and Republican visual poetry.

Jim Dine's Getty-inspired poetry.

Jimmy Santiago Baca in prison.

A poet's advice on the environment, vacations, and universal hatred.

"Something I expected to be different": from Verse to Wave.

The "hippest man on earth," Robin Blaser.

But, Andrew Motion wonders, does the Queen like my poetry?

Braintree poet pens annual 9/11 elegy.

Hips do the work, and John Godfrey crosses the world.

Texas poet revels in mermaids.

A philanthropist's gift to the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

The Prince and the Poet: Machiavelli's sonnets.

Poetry from Women of a New Tribe in Detroit.

Poet Michael Rosen launches Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

New Zealand Prime Minister Award winner works like "a mad rabbit."

James Franco: starving, hysterical, naked.

Remembering Tom Disch in Contemporary Poetry Review.

The 20th Century's "foreign homeland" for European artists.

Remembering Portsmouth poet Robert Dunn.

Ruminating on Coleman Barks.

"Simic Songs" at Wesleyan University.

And the stars fell over Alabama (Mark Doty, too).

Further adventures of an albino terrorist.

"Few jobs are quite so hard, and so strange, as that of Poet Laureate."

Reginald Shepherd has died.

Living up to the writer-in-residence title.

Hailing Rain Taxi.

Hazel Figurine, Spill Fantauzza, and the Silver Jews.

Breaking the poetry fast in Cairo.

Searching for Achilles and Hector in Turkey.

An indie publisher's book giveaway.

UK Poet busted stealing ex's undies.

Is Cuttyhunk Prospero's island?

Dana Gioia stepping down as head of NEA. (Gioia's real reason for stepping down.)

The envelope, please. HBO and Poetry Foundation team up to win an Emmy® for Outstanding Children's Program. Watch it here.

Visiting Carl Sandburg in North Carolina.

"Like Eurydice, Linda Gregg was married to a poet."

Mark Strand and Carl Phillips and George Herbert.

Dylan Thomas biopic whets the appetite for Wales.

Plain dealing with Donald Hall's memoir.

Celebrating Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

Narrow road to the White House littered with Presidential haiku.

A close reading of "Storm Poetry."

Cutting up the instruction manual: Ashbery's collage.

Tehran's Islamic Propagation Department plans to show poems and faces.

Tran Dan posthumously wins Vietnam's Life Award for Poetry.

Chicago Tribune finds poetry in a can of paint.

Japanese poet Takahashi to get a new perspective thanks to NEA.

Angola celebrates poetry of "National Hero" Neto.

Lament for the editors.

China's autumnal poetry explosion.

New media's war against serious literature.

"i went home an began wrtin'": Bob Dylan's poetry in the New Yorker.

Return of the poet's poison.

The laureate of self defense.

Books outmaneuvered by online poetry.

Slam poetry in the Twin Cities.

Looking for the future of publishing outside the corporate world.

The embedded cognition of metaphorical language.

National assets: The Ayatollah on poetics.

Donald Hall unpacks his memories of "love, death, and New Hampshire."

Return of the bohemian king, Viggo Mortensen.

Robert Frost's pedagogy: "I don't teach. I don't know how."

Poetry wants a raisin bagel.

Who wants to be a thousandaire?

Canadian literary society plans book sale, book lovers protest.

The life and times of Montale's muse.

Poetry offers bread and roses in the Sac Bee.

Celebrating Iran's "National Day of Poetry and Literature."

Polling poetry's progress in UK schools.

Re-imagining Anne Sexton's fairy tales.

The NEA's Poetry Pavilion with Kay Ryan and Laura Bush.

Mahmoud Darwish's last poems.

Lorca's family open to grave digging.

Donald Hall turns 80, New Hampshire declares Donald Hall Day.

Twenty years of Factory Readings in the OC.

Bloody Awful Poetry charms Brits.

Pennsylvania poets dig coal mining history.

David Wagoner takes on "grumpy neighbors, noisy parties, and sterile social events."

Brigit Pegeen Kelly wins Academy of American Poets fellowship.

Simon Armitage: Now with active ingredients!

Motion says Betjeman loathed laureateship too.

Katie Ford in the aftermath of Katrina.

Vancouver poets in the quaggy wild.

Language for a New Century born out of despair.

Will write for tenure.

Anarchist poets blow Missouri's mind.

Sidewalk poetry in St. Paul.

Marking time with an Oklahoma cowboy poet.

In times of trouble, actor Paul Rudd turns to poet Dave the Slave.

Journal to publish Osama Bin Laden's poems.

Mary Karr picks poems for David Foster Wallace.

Busboys and poets in Washington D.C.

"The Valve" remembers Reginald Shepherd.

Honoring Abraham Lincoln, president and poet.

Michael Redhill, Saskia Hamilton, and Dennis O'Driscoll set to judge Griffin Prize.

To blurb or not to blurb, that is the "nauseating and demeaning" question.

Sherman Alexie says, "All men live lives of quiet desperation. I just have more metaphors."

"The Sarah Palin of poetry."

VCU's Reading Prize honors legacy of Larry Levis.

Outsider poetry and Jayne Cortez in Oakland.

Channeling the "imperfect penance" of Georg Trakl.

How to write good poetry? Read good poetry, says Wendy Cope.

What does Wordsworth think of the sonnet?

The Typewriter Whisperer.

Online reading gets an F.

Mary Oliver comes to Ketchum.

Poetry is an affair of sanity at Massachusetts Festival.

Helping raise funds for an Ozark poet laureate.

The poetry of Italian master Titian.

Vacate the throne, Dinkar is coming.

In praise of Dana Gioia.

Elizabeth Spires, bailout poet.

Love, not clogged indignation for poetry's State of the Union.

Poetry and science, research and development.

Baraka pushes for Barack at PEN Fest.

Medieval manuscripts go digital.

"The strength of the college was its greatest weakness": a look back at Black Mountain.

Baudelaire and Verlaine set to sing.

Hunting the poetic in New Jersey.

E-lit and Tristan Tzara's hat trick.

Joan of Arcadia, poet, takes on San Francisco.

Film fest features Killer Poet.

Lionel Trilling, too, dislikes Lionel Trilling.

Grove Press and the art of the obscene.

Deconstructing Bin Laden the Bard.

Canonizing the bootleg with Shakespeare, Dylan, et al.

Does free verse in free fall need a formal bailout?

Winning over the bardophobes with Shakespeare on toast.

At light, turn left for poetry.

Public laureate says poetry is private communication.

Patti Smith on film, and celebrating Allen Ginsberg.

The language poetry of Urban Dictionary.

Tao Lin is a little bit happier than you are.

Dodge Poetry Festival, a communal event in the physical world.

An English anthology of Indian poetry, at last.

At Harvard and on "The dark side of the Byronic fence."

Reviewing "Committing Poetry in Times of War."

Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian love poet, is dead.

Art and politics, opinions and advertising in poetry at McGill.

The chamber music of Ginsberg's "Howl".

The Syracuse School.

Songs for the rainy season in the Guardian.

"Bombay Poets" haven't mellowed with age.

Andrei Codrescu's songs of storms and exile.

"The poet is a lifer": Clive James' selected.

F=I=N=A=N=C=E.

Basho wept: more election haiku.

Eleanor Rees, Zoo Poet.

Kaloji Narayana Rao, people's poet of India.

A poem from Iraq in Pennsylvania.

Ephemera from the life of Tennyson.

Shedding light on the small darkened rooms of translators.

A spell in every sea shell left on H.D.'s grave.

Lorine Niedecker's radical vernacular.

In Memoriam: Hayden Carruth (1921-2008).