News Archive

"Forget your footnotes on the old gentleman; dance around Mary": MLA sex.

Clayton Eshleman, Ypsi poet.

The Seattle Poetry Chain, link by link.

A look at the letters of Hughes, Lowell and Bishop.

"I lived like a dog": Stone Mountain man tries to get his business together with poetry.

"The world's greatest and most lovable poet."

Pinter in Poet's Corner?

Danish poet Inger Christensen is dead.

Langston Hughes the struggle for civil rights.

Stunning urbanity gives way to stunned suburbanity: the New New York Poets.

City poet, dumb poet.

The music of Paul Celan in Philly.

Adam Foulds wins Costa Book Award.

"We'll greet the rain together": Mary Karr on Tryfon Tolides.

Beware: Darwish poem still inflames passions.

Shakespeare's Warwickshire church may close.

Nazim Hikmet, dead 45 years, officially Turkish again.

Virginia Quarterly Review lists top books of 2008.

Eunoia storms the UK.

How Whitman turned Civil War horror into poetry.

The chaos of Lana Hechtman Ayers.

Arcade publisher Richard Seaver is dead.

One, two, three: repeater.

The metaphysical poetry of Kevin Brophy.

"Toward International Peace Through the Arts."

The world is flat: a verse history of Kansas.

Joyce Angela Jellison: "The revolution will not be lead by Obama."

Depression imminent, patron saints needed.

Pssst! Buddy! Wanna get yr poem published?

The forgotten family reunion of T.S. Eliot on stage.

Kay Ryan's partner, Carol Adair, has died.

Beats shoveling: Paying kids to memorize poetry.

Garrison Keillor's emergency urination sonnet.

John Mayer shows his poetic side to Jennifer Aniston.

An appreciation of E. Donald Two Rivers, Ojibwa poet.

Mark Doty's consolation gets a grim twist.

Carol Ann Duffy's living green.

The AP obit of Inger Christensen.

The Haiku Movement in Gujarati literature.

Bringing the world together with musical Rumi.

Author Solutions building self-publishing empire.

Wayne State's crusade to rescue weird words.

The unresolved contests of Tony Harrison.

The Kelly Writers House Dial-a-Poem.

A web guide to Lincoln's love of poetry.

The WSJ weighs in on Elizabeth Alexander.

"The grand ineffable" in Linda Bierds' Flight.

Battle of Debauchery: the Monks vs. the Beats.

"Yes, poets have sex . . . that still doesn't explain Shakespeare."

Sylvia Plath and webcam suicides.

Mick Imlah, Forward Prize-winning poet, is dead.

Elizabeth Alexander at Yale.

A poem for Blago on Ben Smith.

Poetry for the pilgrimage through contemporary Canterbury.

The worst of celebrity poetry.

Half of Canada can't name one Canadian writer.

Blagojevich loves British poetry.

The "proud, muzzy-headed joy" in Sylvia Plath's Three Women.

Sister city celebrates with Burns Supper.

Reclaiming the power of poetry on the Boston stage.

Obama's "affirmation of the power of language."

This is a poem about cancer.

Fiction readers increase, poetry readers stagnate.

UK in need of a public poet, hold the solipsism, egomania, and obscurity.

Jen Hadfield's unexpected T.S. Eliot Prize.

Poetry in the Irish language vacuum.

"A whole lotta reading going on."

Carl Sandburg and Abraham Lincoln.

Jonathan Raban on literary presidents.

Listening to the T.S. Eliot Award archives.

The birth of a UK poetry star.

W.D. Snodgrass is dead.

The AP solicited heavy hitters for inaugural poems.

Time magazine talks to Elizabeth Alexander.

"We are Virginia Tech," and other love poems.

The "Obama-mentum" anthology of poetry seeks submissions.

Clinton quotes Terence to explain smart power.

Ie. gallwn ni. (Yes, we can): An inaugural poem from Wales.

Apocalyptic poems about space debris and the power of Red Bull.

Byron in Love.

Golf, whisky, the Enlightenment, and Rabbie Burns.

The separation of poetry and state.

Tao Lin, "world class perpetrator of gimmickry."

1000 years of Japanese nature poetry.

Sporting news that stays news.

Walt Whitman and "the unwritten war."

"Snodgrass is walking through the universe."

200 years of Edgar Allan Poe.

2010 Dodge Festival canceled.

Smells like synesthesia.

The poet in the newsroom.

The personal poetry of W.D. Snodgrass.

Presidents and rock-star poets.

Caroline Kennedy is a poetry publishing powerhouse.

Stacyanne Chin, out poet.

The times catch up with Langston Hughes.

Newsflash: Arthur Rimbaud was not nice.

Elizabeth Alexander asks, "how can I serve the moment?"

Michael Dirda on that famously grumpy Romantic, William Hazlitt.

The lost leader: Andrew Motion praises Mick Imlah.

Minneapolis poets reflect on elevating occasions.

What happens to "the speed of a turning page" when poetry goes digital?

Eileen Myles' Iceland in Viceland.

The "least flashy of art forms" gets center stage.

Moldovan poet Grigore Vieru is dead.

Alternative inaugural poems.

A Kenyan poet's ornate London home up for grabs.

Belfast poet Ciaran Carson: "Every move is punctuated."

Celebrating Poe's 200th in Philly.

Small press Graywolf hits the big time.

Burying Grigore Viero.

Nikki Giovanni: sensuality in the face of tragedy.

Declaiming from the yellow sofa on inauguration day.

Uh oh: "I would not have a life as a poet without The Dodge."

The bureaucratic poet.

"Calling Mr. Obama!" Bronx kids ask the president poetic questions.

Marilynne Robinson on the influence of "strange, arcane and melancholy Poe."

The poetry of ex-president George W. Bush.

Prince Charles reads Rabbie Burns.

Close reading the poetry of the inaugural address.

Seattle's Poet Populist too dislikes it.

Alexander atop the Amazon bestseller list.

The color of Yusef Komunyakaa's dreams.

The LA Tmes critiques the praise song.

Oxford in search of a new poetry prof.

Alien vs. Predator vs. Michael Robbins.

Paul Celan's Gettysburg Address.

Scotch and Haggis in Seattle to honor Rabbie Burns.

Elegy for the Dodge Festival.

Time magazine tackles the future of book publishing.

Blagojevich, Dylan Thomas, and Rodney Dangerfield.

The Poe Wars.

The wars Stein has seen; Gertrude's memoir put to music.

Flarf finds its voice on Studio 360.

"The word 'poet' still has an aura," but will these poets stand the test of time?

E.E. Cummings in Houston musical.

"An avuncular pat on the bum for the bum who has the temerity to write poems."

Slamming Elizabeth Alexander.

"A good fight about poetry is worth the bother."

Kevin Stein, Illinois' Blago-appointed poet laureate.

The best Scottish poetry (minus Robbie Burns).

"The Demise of the Critic" echoes Wanda Coleman.

The end of the ode for UK poet laureate?

"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."

The National Book Critics Circle Award finalists announced.

Iceland's epic poems cast a "cold and undisturbed gaze on human brutality, nobility, pettiness, glory and misery."

Mary Karr on Seamus Heaney.

Barbie poems, J.D. Salinger, and Orchises Press.

Once dumped, Louisiana's poet laureate comes back.

Potty poems to take over Japanese heads.

Publishers Weekly, ubiquitous poetry blurber, lays off editor.

A summer with W.D. Snodgrass.

A eulogy for Tom Disch.

Blago talks poetry to ABC News.

SloPo Shocker: Wendell Berry has "no appetite for glitz and glamour."

Prolific novelist (and author of our site's most popular poem) John Updike dies at 76.

The poems of Angel Island.

UK laureate lives in fear of royal wedding.

Is contemporary publishing killing Shakespeare?

Considering the aesthetics of poetry book covers.

Updike at rest.

Silicon Valley seeks laureate of its own.

Auden, Larkin, Empson: Lunch Poets.

Washington Post Book World gets the axe.

Democrats and poetry.

The National Poet of the Netherlands.

Woodland Pattern's 15th annual marathon reading in Milwaukee.

"Age is no impediment to innovation" for James Liddy.

Re-considering Robert Burns' lust for ladies.

Andrei Condrescu's students pay the absurd price of higher education.

Alien vs. Predator? No. Franz Wright vs. William Logan.

Roberto Bolaño, maybe not so badass.

A "poet and a human being" tries for a breakthrough novel.

Kiss like a poet.

Updike's "Requiem."

Haiku, senryu and other paths to enlightenment.

The street poetry of suburban Seattle.

Wendy Cope is just not that into the laureateship.

The hardest working bard in Los Angeles.

Calvin Trillin's triple threat.

George Schneeman, New York school muse and collaborator, has died.

Poetry in the women's prison.

Iraqi shoe-thrower honored with giant, bronze wing-tip, poem.