News Archive

Poetry by post at LACMA.

Stanley Fish on Milton in prose.

Paul Muldoon, state of the art: "Making sense is what's difficult."

Barack Obama and activist-poet Frank Marshall Davis.

"I preferred to be a fool": Ed Skoog in Seattle.

Seamus Heaney on Eminem, the bog, and duty.

New UK Poetry Society director sees verse as "national sport."

"Repetition flogs the theme": Ron Silliman reviewed.

An anthology for "the new 'F' word."

A poem for the Pittsburgh Steelers: "Ode to the 'D.'"

Indianapolis International Airport's high windows.

Poetry's rights and responsibilities in Wales.

Five well-versed Irish women.

"Paradox and upended cliché": Brenda Wineapple's Emily Dickinson.

The Stranger asks: "Why does Seattle promote dumb, bad poetry?"

The "real mystery" of Slovene poetry in the US.

Gender Gap: The NEA follows up its Artists in the Workforce study.

Trying to keep some library collection's Google free.

Pinsky picks Fulke Greville as favorite obscurity.

Open house with Ohio's poet laureate.

"Sylvia Plath Must Not Die" in Toronto.

Gwyneth Lewis on the health of poetry.

Queen's U honors Seamus Heaney.

Katy Lederer, hedge fund laureate.

In defense of difficult poetry read aloud.

James Franco and "The Feast of Stephen."

A Long Island poetry of spirits and oxygen.

Healing and relief at poetry and grief workshop in Tacoma.

The inner sanctum of Nashville's Bat Poet.

Poetry rehab in the Tuscon juvie.

Kay Ryan's Believe it or Not!

Casting a critical eye on Walt Whitman's civil war.

Does identity trump poetry in UK laureate search?

This weekend's indie and small press book fair in NYC.

After careful consideration, no.

The poetry of Hans Arp in Strasbourg.

Delaware's Milton Fest celebrates ten years.

Publishers suffer Black Wednesday with layoffs, consolidation.

PEN Oakland winners.

Will there be an Obama-revived WPA?

Ashbery rebuffs TLS.

Jack Spicer's "hell of personal relations."

Lost and found Dylan poems "fresh and arresting."

Alex Caldiero: poet of "many sensations," including bafflement.

Unsentimental Thomas Hardy remains timeless.

Poetry readings at the White House?

"No admission without poetry": Catholic group celebrates advent of Xmas poems.

All aboard rail-inspired verse.

Anne Carson and the "complicated marriage of music and text."

The Lincoln-Obama connection? Novice verse.

The Collected John Ashbery: "A training guide for imaginative calisthenics."

Dale Smith on Philip Whalen.

Nancy Pearl on Portland's B.T. Shaw.

Brothel ad and Chinese poetry lost in German translation.

Birthday verse from Ask-a-Poet.

In praise of poetry and poverty.

Finals for pan-Arab lit competition, Poet of Millions, begin.

2009 NEA Fellowships announced.

Today is John Milton's 400th birthday.

More protests against Patrick Jones.

Nabokov's Russian translations to change your life.

"Not that Spicer is for the common reader. God forbid."

Send in the clouds: Winter is the season for poetry.

An interview with Charles Simic.

Milton as British mascot.

The New Republic calls to bring back the Federal Writers Project.

In praise of Thomas Merton.

Australian poet Dorothy Porter is dead at 54.

William Gibson's AGRIPPA restored.

The Nation reviews PDF anthology of pirated poetry.

Hoping poetry readings (and Top 10 lists) never go out of style.

Baltimore poet Moira Egan "both naughty and nice."

Claudia Emerson heads back home to Chatham.

St. Louis Today picks the best poetry of 2008.

Michael Gordon's 21st Century Emily Dickinson.

New England College sues for stolen creative writing program.

Barney Rosset, still the "most dangerous man in publishing"?

Poets hope for inaugural spotlight.

Poets and writers agree: grammar is sexy.

"Humorous in intent and frequently risqué": A call for limericks.

Captain Collins, poet, is called back to Iraq.

Eulogy for Aussie poet Dorothy Porter.

Survival is all in the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert.

"Everything fits and is tidy": Prairie poetry in the Dakotas.

Carol Houck Smith, editor of Kumin, Stern, Kunitz, Dove and others at Norton, is dead.

No pantoums for Maria Shriver forthcoming from Muske-Dukes.

Like poetry, get ladies.

Bikini-clad poets take polar bear dip after reading.

"And now—you've left for good": Lowell and Bishop on NPR.

Dream of a unified theory: Poets of both arts and sciences.

Sharon Olds on the horrors of war.

The Dharma Bum letters, collected.

Roger Angell's holiday poetry greetings.

Saving Joe Purdy's Ontario home.

"The perfumed sadness of silence" in Pierre Martory's poetry.

"He draws a crucified arm, which oddly rouses him": Mariani on Hopkins.

New Burns poems—and his STD—discovered.

Does editing poetry for kids qualify Caroline Kennedy for the Senate?

Pennsylvania poet Michael Hoover agitates for Hanover culture.

Poems for the Iraqi shoe-tosser.

A preview of Dante's Inferno, the video game.

Linton Kwesi Johnson is a "tap natch poet."

Twenty poetry questions for 2009.

If there's no world outside texts, then where are all the lit students going?

Jim Dine's "lackadaisical" poetry installation at the Getty.

Ashbery vs. Kessler in the TLS.

A cool two million for Poets & Writers.

Shaky Borders at point of no-return.

A crimson tide of slam poetry in Alabama.

Denis Leary on rhythm and Bill Knott.

Taking down Jerusalem, Beloved.

Seattlite wins TLS Poetry Competition.

Poverty, a broken neck, and now the BBC for Peter Street.

More Welsh protests of Patrick Jones.

Proust poem to fetch big bucks at auction.

Elizabeth Alexander picked as Obama's inaugural poet.

Japan's punk rock robot poet.

Poet drops "n" bomb at prep school, parents enraged.

"I was afflicted and afflicted you": Sharon Olds and Maureen N. McLane.

A Christmas poem in the WSJ.

W.S. Merwin on Fresh Air.

The digital Whitman archive endlessly rocking.

A profile of inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander.

"How did I trust thee?": Meltdown poetry on the HuffPo.

Gwendolyn Brooks in Chicago's literary underground.

Graywolf has dibs on inaugural poem.

Bolaño's Romantic Dogs, dreams within dreams.

George Packer writes against Presidential poetry.

Jack Spicer's poetry for the Nation.

Philip Larkin's Sunday sessions.

Elizabeth Alexander's "challenge" (understatement of the year?).

Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich answers corruption charges with poem.

Brian Turner talks Iraq war poetry.

Money and art find a way at the Poetry Brothel.

Midnight poems at AuthorScoop.

The SF Chronicle's best poetry of 2008.

Blagojevich calls on Kipling in time of crisis.

AP profile of Elizabeth Alexander.

UK poet Adrian Mitchell is dead at 76.

The poetry encyclopedia of Abu Dhabi.

Jeanette Winterson on Forrest Gander in the NYTBR.

Nabakov's best-loved Russian verse.

Here comes everybody: Internet literacy, Auden, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.

"Poetry is merely honesty, and everyone has the potential for that."

Angela Leighton offers tentative mood of hope.

"Poetry is for funerals, it seems."

Rocker Ryan Adams tries verse, gets panned.

Jack Spicer's open source advocacy and jolly hostility in the LA Times.

Dining with Pessoa in Lisbon.

The Twin Cities Examiner's best poetry of 2008.

The wiseguy archness and savage aplomb of William Logan.

Could Ginsberg and Kissinger naked on TV have ended Vietnam?

A look back at Frost and JFK.

New Year's resolutions for Canadian poetry.

Eulogy for a poetry lover in the NYTBR.

Katy Lederer in the Indian Express.

"Hoodoo in the sleeping nook", Elizabeth Alexander at the podium.

Eat, drink and be merry: Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.

Can nature poetry merge with the world?

Days of wine and poetry in Norwich.

Harold Pinter's later poetry pushed back against tyrants.

Seamus Heaney on NPR.

FSG in need of a new "courtly lion" like Giroux.

W.S. Merwin on PBS.

Ginsberg and Snyder: "A prickly, mutually respectful and totally asexual relationship."

"Less sexy, by far": Spicer in the NYT.