News Archive

Did Phillip Lopate write Ayers memoir?

Doug the Poet vs. Joe the Plumber.

Visiting Lorca's grave, guided by voices.

Returning poetry to the community in Tucson.

Scottish love poems for every taste.

John Crowe Ransom vexed by death in Travers City.

Linda Bierds in flight.

William Logan on Bishop and Lowell.

Warren Buffet and the Waste Land Explained.

Voter poetry: "Fitting one fragment of a total secret together."

John Ashbery at the movies.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Up Down Left Right Left Right ABAB: Dante's cheat code out of hell?

Could Obama's poetry help the arts?

Whitman on our "quadrennial choosing."

Remembering Wilfred Owen.

The Irish slam scene observed.

Distinguishing a poem from a death threat in Toronto.

Vera Britain's poetry of the first world war.

The myth of the debauched poet.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti hopes for a Camelot Epoch.

Election Day Poems in the New York Times.

UK poets open multi-million dollar library renovation.

Lives in six words, the new haiku.

Mary Karr inside and out.

Political poetry on the UT campus.

Celebrating 100 years of Theodore Roethke.

The lost propaganda of Dylan Thomas, found.

"New" Kerouac-Burroughs collaboration grew from poetry breakfast.

Detained journalists join poet in Burmese jail.

The poetry and praise of Leonard Cohen.

Busboys and Poets at George Washington U.

Young slammers take over Canada.

Tributes for Irish poet James Liddy.

In praise of Graywolf.

Josephine Hart puts UK poetry in its cultural place.

To hell with terza rima.

A cornucopia of autumn book prizes.

Seattle's new Poet Populist.

WWI poetry manuscripts go digital at Oxford.

"Somebody else's poet," Maya Angelou works on Obama verse.

"Courage is not the abnormal": Mary Karr on Jack Gilbert.

Laureate Kay Ryan with librarian James Billington on Charlie Rose.

Lift, joy, and unexpected reward in Seamus Heaney.

August Kleinzahler on James Merrill.

Campaign in poetry, govern in prose, transition in Walcott.

Williams and Dickinson for kids.

Harryette Mullen named United States Artists Fellow.

A poppy for poet boy on Remembrance Day.

Poet Suzanne Steele in the Canadian Forces Artists Program.

The poetry of women war vets on NPR.

World War I's forgotten boy writes terrible poetry.

Natasha Trethaway's national anthem.

Preserving Rudyard Kipling's cricket grounds.

Poet Nay Myo Kyaw gets 20 years in Burmese jail for satirical poem.

The fierce urgency of now: a write or die app.

Allen Grossman is not alone.

The home video review of books.

Golf's poet laureate inducted into hall of fame.

Study shows poetic truth has the truthiness of truth truth.

Kicking the poetry habit.

The poetry of Sid Vicious.

Nikki Giovanni flips the script on hip hop for kids.

Jack Spicer's vocabulary did this to the Boston Review.

Madonna says A-Rod "has the heart of a poet"; most likely Rod McKuen's.

Loving the freak in Joe Brainard's Nancy.

The poetics of Philly civics.

J.D. McClatchy's "Our Town" in New Hampshire.

Goncourt Prize winner inspired by poet.

Wu Tang Clan and Shakespeare, tragic poets all.

Christian activists halt UK poetry book launch.

Linda Bierds unifies technology, religion, science and art.

"My dearest potato-chan!": Harvest-inspired poetry in Japan.

San Louis Obispo's poet laureate celebrates "Language of the Soul".

Schwarzenegger crowns Muske-Dukes California's poet laureate.

Gloucester looks to Charles Olson in the face of gentrification.

Obama's "lost poems" found in Greensboro.

Learning poems by heart for cash and prizes.

Lewis Turco calls B.S. on Kleinzahler.

China's Poetry Idol may be on the verge of stardom.

Ezra Pound in Austin, Texas.

Meghan O'Rourke and the online trinity of lady editors at Slate.

Ab-Ex painter and New York School muse Grace Hartigan is dead.

John Adams and Walt Whitman at Harvard.

Mary Karr on Robert Bly's Kabir.

Not cowed by evangelicals, Wales' government invites "blasphemous" poet to read.

Lewis Hyde and poetry's "gift economy".

The trouble with gum ingredients: Chicago Tribune imagines Billy Collins as ad man.

Jeanette Winterson on T.S. Eliot and her tough teens.

"When gossip grows old, it becomes myth": the Letters of Ted Hughes.

1956 Gary Snyder recording found at Reed College.

Mallarmé, Hornick, and four Hindu poems for the Inscape Chamber Orchestra.

St. Louis poet Donald Finkel is dead.

Doggerel for Muske-Dukes.

The poetry of urban Jakarta.

"The poet of Dumbwoman's lane sallies forth": Paul McCartney at auction.

Zbigniew Herbert has "the unpleasantness of great poetry."

Jordan Davis on Yusef Komunyakaa in the SF Chronicle.

Interviewing W.H. Auden in the Michigan Quarterly.

Jack Spicer's uncomfortable music in Bookforum.

M.I.T. asks: Have Homer and Shakespeare had their day?

Bellevue as Beat clubhouse.

Maya Angelou and Martina McBride.

Milton and Babar together at last in the Morgan Library.

Judge drops criminal investigation into Locra's killers.

Remembering Donald Finkel.

The National Book Awards have Texas in their soul.

Pasolini's poetry half in love with death.

Ani Difranco, terrified by "Verses."

Kevin Hart's "Uh Oh Time."

Mark Doty wins the National Book Award.

Kleinzhaler wins Lannan Foundation $150,000.

Poetry and the "just barely nameable."

Letters from four decades of the Beat movement.

The Christian Science Monitor on Doty's Fire to Fire.

Revisiting Canterbury with a modern tongue.

The trouble with poetry contests.

Nation of immigrants, nation of poets in Minneapolis.

Carnal the Cowboy Poet in Grand Junction.

"As a culturally retarded 23 year old, I had had never heard of the legendary '60s Beat poet Allen Ginsberg."

After the deluge: water poetry.

Looking back on the Milton marathon at St. Olaf.

One of the Big Three (tenors) to sing Pope's poetry.

Total Recall: Californian has perfect memory, but not for poems.

Coach House Press heyday revisited.

Will there be an Obama arts explosion?

The Dodge Poetry Festival, YouTube version.

"Try to praise the mutilated world": Mary Karr on Zagajewski.

Hanover poets and the art of noticing.

Solitudes crowded with loneliness: Harryette Mullen speaking on Bob Kaufman.

Europeans in search of Dante crash massive digital library.

Cavafy "as good as great poetry gets."

Terry Teachout on the the British Library's Spoken Word.

Slam poetry as talk therapy in DC.

Portraits of Youth Speaks poets in San Francisco.

Clive James' 'sayableness' in the LA Times.

Dancing after the deluge: Paul Taylor takes on Rimbaud/Whitman.

Reginald Gibbons in the Chicago Tribune.

Stop, thief! New England poetry prof accused of stealing faculty.

Laureate Idol next year in the UK?

"If you ever need a Walt, let me know": Whitman's ghost in Fort Greene.

Be warned: Andrew Motion gives advice to the next UK poet laureate.

Not "Strictly Come Rhyming": the Times on the next laureate choice.

Marie Howe's capacity for violence.

Gayle Danley slams kids.

Houghton Mifflin, publisher of Donald Hall, Natasha Trethaway, and Mary Oliver, says no to new books.

Advice on jobs and wine-pairings at "Ask a Poet."

Canada Council denies personal ties influenced award for poet.

"Forget the marooned beatnik at the open mic": The Phoenix on Franz Wright and Rafael Campo.