News Archive

U.S. no longer deprived of Clive James.

Seamus Heaney's poems for Harvard.

Cops bust poem peddler.

Celebrating poetry in the commonwealth.

Lowell and Bishop a bipolar pair.

Nobel head proves Europeans still snobby.

The Colonel and Carolyn Forche.

The true stories of "The Odyssey" and "The lliad."

Robert Burns in the loo.

"To watch from the shore other people drowning."

Hayden Carruth, "one of the most important poets of his generation," is dead at 87.

"Leaves of grass my ass; here's Alfred Lord Tennyson."

Singing William Stafford songs in Oregon.

Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse moves to Arkansas.

What is Billy Collins trying to say?

Long dead, Schiller ordered to pay up for TV.

Henri Cole wins Lenore Marshall Award.

Sarah Heath Palin, "Alaskan Poet."

Kat Dennings, "daughter of a poet."

Robert Bly and "the whiny one inside us."

Lucie Brock-Broido at Plymouth State: "When I say short, I mean the life was small."

Just win, baby: the poetry of Oakland's Al Davis.

"Dave and Greg's Excellent Language Adventures."

Cross-genre: Poet's first novel shortlisted for Writer's Trust Prize.

The vice-presidential poetry slam.

Felix Dennis on crack and poetry.

Multimedia Yeats in Dublin.

Luv like a melody: Bob Dylan's greatest influence.

Clive James: The book of my enemy has been remaindered.

Keeping campuses from becoming arts waste lands.

Giovanni on Parks: "Black love is black wealth."

Trace to predicament: Olds, Giscombe, and McClane.

Hughes on Plath: "My attempt to correct that marriage is madness from start to finish."

Derek Walcott has no time to be original.

Burying Czeslaw Milosz.

Learning poems by heart.

The power and the trouble of Aimé Césaire.

A call for credit crunch poetry.

Ledbury Poetry Festival goes digital.

CK Williams inside and out.

Pick the crazy one: Rural juror? No. Lit juror? Yes.

Uncovering Kim Soo-young.

The poetry of Honest Abe.

It's always time to write another poem!

The UK tries to Import important poetry.

Poet Samhan an "enemy of Islam."

Robert Hass: "There's something wrong with the American moral imagination."

Poetry from the political fringe.

John Snow, cricketer poet.

The Poetry Treatment puts verse in the can.

Ashley Capps has "survival skills given by the human imagination."

Budding Brookline poet "completely rad."

Finnish poet Paavo Haavikko is dead.

Canadian lit booster dies.

The absolute and the everyday in Rae Armantrout.

A lesbian poetry retrospective.

Charlotte Kohler, renowned editor at VQR, dies at 99.

Amiri Baraka: "If you don't get hit in the head, you've got a future."

Poetry in the raw.

Pure poetry and football.

The poet psyche express.

An argument for the Nobel for "outstanding literary achievement with no fancy stuff."

National Poetry Day in the UK.

"Poetry dead? An absurd idea," says Pinsky.

Rosanna Warren's anti-memoir of verse.

Scottish poet Mick Imlah wins the Forward Prize.

Poetic strategies in the oblivion of David Foster Wallace.

Millionaire poet plies audiences with free wine, so-so verse.

How to capitalize on a cultural asset (poetry) in Massachussets.

UK Minister argues for more librarian "joy and chatter."

"Dark angel with her unruly Slavic eyebrows" wouldn't mind a meet-up.

E-lit pioneer Stephanie Strickland isn't giving up on paper.

"Pat the Voice" channels Dylan Thomas.

Poetry goes to work.

Lewis Carroll and the war on piracy.

Felix Dennis, liquor laureate.

Three decades of Poetry Ireland.

A spectacular library at a modest price.

Poetry Daily began with a glance.

Pakistan's poems for a penny.

Refashioning the original in Bierds' "Zuni Potter."

Afaa Michael Weaver in East Baltimore: Tai Chi under the trees.

Richard Hell on Rimbaud.

Bill Knott and the undead Saint Geraud.

The Cubs of literature: American Poets have a hundred year Nobel drought.

Bloodkin and other lyrics of the South.

Patricia Smith dazzled by the "huge human mistake" of Katrina.

Nikki Giovanni's hip hop for kids.

Christian leader calls for new culture of poetry.

Science says: Poetry is no country for old men.

Robert Burns and the old lady vernacular.

UK poets rail against terror detentions.

Zanzibar's poetry in praise of the prophet.

Making out with Emily Dickinson.

Discovering Sarah Lindsay.

Chris Offut's guide to literary terms.

Jo Bell takes the stuffiness out of sonnets.

Composer Glass and poet Cohen keep some kind of record.

Mark Doty at the "Southern gay mecca."

Ted Hughes archive bought for $1M.

Ezra Pound in prison.

Crazy Russian hijacker also a bad poet.

Patrica Smith still loved in Chicago.

Colin Powell raps against yahoo yahoo boys.

Poetry and Irish song.

Dağlarca, father of Turkish epic poetry, dies.

Dr. Atomic, with a cameo by Baudelaire.

Robert Creeley, despairing husband.

Two Native American poets in the Tuscon mist.

Kevin Coval is still louder than a bomb.

Renting Dylan Thomas.

National Book Award finalists announced.

Do we need more gossip about Sylvia and Ted?

Mayor of Missoula hearts Ogden Nash.

Dis poet Mutabaruka, dub royalty.

The Birthday Letters revisited.

Pot meet kettle: "Poetry itself is dull, boring, full of itself and attracts duller, stuffier and exceedingly arrogant types."

In search of the Whopper laureate.

Trawling for literature in the Arab world.

A makeover for the Poetry Society.

Poetry in the schools frozen in the ice.

The greater maturity of Billy Collins.

Honoring Reginald Shepherd.

Hunting the elusive conservative poem.

Matthew Arnold's "honeymoon poem."

Cambridge looking for a poet with text appeal.

Stretching a food metaphor at the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival.

Expensive graves and Roger Fanning.

Early menopause births "Mean" poetry.

Kay Ryan "yanked out of the monastery and into the public."

Charles Simic loves his labyrinth.

The oldest piece of Japan's oldest poetry.

"Poetry is all about losing money."

The literary ambitions of Indian bureaucrats sparks jealousy.

Reveling in rare book obscurity.

Wichita Eagle names Merwin "our greatest living poet."

Sharon Dolin shares an extra sin on NPR.

Pair of Irish lads win Ted Hughes award.

Agent to the UK literary stars is dead.

Poet accused of insulting Islam arrested in Jordan.

Opening Bukowski's wine-stained notebooks.

A Ready-to-Eat poem for New Orleans.

Clive James writes in praise of super agent Pat Kavanagh.

Pram in the hall, artist in the parliament.

Montana poet has the Salish spirit.

Exploring the disappointment of poetry at a Calgary laundromat.

Grandfather of rap Rudy Ray Moore is dead.

Paradise Lost found streaming online.

A "scholar with a heart" translates lyrics of Persian love.

The sound and sense of architecture.

Honoring Lord Byron's service in Greece.

Half a millennium without a poet.

Haiku death match in Cleveland.

Judging August Kleinzahler by his cover.

Poet imprisoned in Rangoon honored in Toronto with empty chair.

Chapbooks thrive in the Triangle.

Writers in Jordan demand poet's release.

A terrible beauty is sold: Yeats at auction.

"This ill-mannered prodigy from Charleville": Rimbaud on Truth and Beauty.

Helen Vendler on Berlin's half zombie poet.

Robert Pinsky joins the fray.

Dead poets slam.

Halloween Poetry Spooktacular.

Keeping the Gregory Corso beat alive.

Galway Kinnell rumbles into Vermont.

Expanding the borders of Latino poetry.

John Ashbery advises young poets to dig in their heels.

Patrick Phillips falls between Carl and Sylvia.

Collected poems in the year of Zbigniew Herbert.

A probation violation turns poetic in Michigan.

Lit detectives find Jewish poetry stolen by Nazis in German libraries.

Krugman gets poetic.

Finding poetry in salted and boiled chicks.

Stanley Fish and politics regained.

Knock knock. Who's there? Brenda Shaughnessy.

Donald Hall looks back.

"Brass knuckle thuggery" in Ginsberg's letters.

Algerian librarian fired for inviting poet Adonis to speak.

Robert Burns in Brooklyn.

The poetic poise of the hummingbird.

Paul Mariani, if not priest then poet.

Blake as imaginative navigator of South London.

Sharing a bed with Shelley's ghost.

Do poets make good husbands?

Tampa Bay Ray preps for the World Series with Ashbery and Creeley.

John Walsh wants poets to rise to the challenge.

A Seattle poetry slam's Sarah Palin punchline.

Poets Against the War in Ohio.

Joshua Beckman, "rock star poet."

The mixed media Emily Dickinson in Houston.

Prose vs. poetry in the New York capitol.

Two great flavors together at last: cake and poetry.

Lily Allen: Wordsworth of the MySpace Generation?

The breakdowns and blackouts of Bishop and Lowell.

The upstate NY man behind the "fabulous letters" of Bishop and Lowell.

Poetry lights up Tribune Tower.

Szymborska's voice rings true at the Pentagon.

Robert Pinsky in the Live Free or Die state.

All hail King Ubu.

Wendell Berry pushes back against the age.

Poet scholars in the MLA and ALSC kiss and make-up.

W.S. Merwin: charismatic, contemplative, hypnotic, unpunctuated.

Celebrating Dia de los Muertos with poetry, skulls.

Rick Hilles, Douglas Kearney and Julie Sheehan win Whiting Writers' Awards.

Gary Snyder on John McCain's reading list.

"Poetry and bad things exist at the same time" at Chico bookstore.

Life on Earth with Derek Mahon.

Was Dracula modeled after Walt Whitman?

Cute animals are out, poems are in for Canadian wine labels.