News Archive

Maine cops publish poetry calendar.

Elizabeth Alexander gets a "10 out of 10 for bravado."

Jim Morrison's private poetry in San Francisco.

Exploring new poetry one chapbook at a time.

Is the UK laureateship a poisoned cup?

Chatting with Zachary Schomburg.

Nikki Giovanni mourns with love poems.

Chaucer asks for a raise.

The "rich paradox" of Barbara Guest.

Canada says bye bye to book fairs.

Santa Clara county in search of poetic voice.

There can be only one: Scots search for the ultimate poem.

The poetry of farm animals in the ghost house.

Poetry for Obama's first 100 days.

No vacation for Romanian poet.

Mark Bibbins and the Tatooine Sunset.

Williams elected to Jersey Hall of Fame.

The Telegraph makes sense of modern poetry.

Blurb: the next generation.

University presses feel the recession's hard pinch.

Edmund Jabés, still dead.

Poetry for Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.

51 ways of looking at "Praise Song."

Robert Burns, outlaw poet.

A look back at Dana Gioia's NEA tenure.

Linton Kwesi Johnson's poetic activism.

Richard Howard's Cleveland roots.

Tired of sex, Rivers Cuomo reads a poem.

New Yorker publisher Condé Nast's internet failure.

The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, long-time poetry reading host, to close.

Can Rumi fight Islamic terrorism?

Dali and Lorca together again in Little Ashes.

Sappho in Vancouver.

J.D. McClatchy to head American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dorothy Porter and the "high dream of literary excitement."

The decline and fall of flarf.

Oliver Sacks talks poetry and hallucinatory neurology.

The true story of Google Books.

Major Jackson and William Cordova.

Old Codger's Lament: poems about aging.

Dante's "hellish journey" takes him to DC.

Poets' stimulus: "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people."

Charles Darwin in verse.

Philip Larkin out loud.

Remembering Hayden Carruth.

Entertainment Weekly's Oscar poetry contest.

"The Golden Age of Paraphernalia" in the Nation.

Mathea Harvey wins 100 G's; Matthew Dickman wins 10.

Traveling with the poetry of Dublin.

Black arts pioneer Mari Evans in Indianapolis.

2009 is shaping up to be the Year of Graywolf.

Pakistani PM praises Sufi poets.

A Valentine from Ezra Pound.

Updike's last poems to be published.

Praising the pamphleteer.

An open letter to Elizabeth Alexander.

Times launches Spender Prize for translation.

Poetry for hard times in South Carolina.

Looking for new children's poetry classics.

"Any cultured person ought to be able to . . . write a poem."

Bishop vs. Cassady.

Eulogy for the Oscar Wilde Bookshop.

National Poetry Day in Vietnam.

The poetry of Marsden Hartley.

"Never let a poem judge you."

No stimulus for the arts.

Poetry's new math.

Li-young Lee wows Gonzaga.

Jonas Mekas needs his space.

HarperCollins loses Collins.

The poetry of Japanese hard times.

The Love Poem Generator.

Jamaican poets hail censorship.

Sylvia Plath's death is 46.

Berkeley poet James E. Schevill dies.

Calvin Trillin meets deadline.

Rita Dove in Richmond.

Muske-Dukes in Hollywood.

Poetry sells butter in Connecticut.

The Poets and Writers Ball in Houston: "the best party in town."

Ruth Padel, Darwin's great-great granddaughter, writes his bio in verse.

Irish poet denies being a "sex tourist."

Torille Kove on arts journal video.

The Galle Literary Fest rocks Sri Lanka.

Adrienne Rich: After Sappho.

Pushkin "famously managed to die like an idiot."

Sapphic love.

Ashbery to receive Harvard Arts Medal.

Billy Collins and the "four or five human emotions."

"I now write everything between the earth and the sky."

Robert Burns, big in Japan.

Love Sonneteer for hire.

Please welcome the late Michael Donaghy.

Poet sued for calling father-in-law a miser (leaving no doubt about it).

The detainee poet and the Quaker social worker: a love story.

Portland's poetry-inspired jeweler.

Mary Karr on Paul Muldoon: "neither schoolmarm nor showoff."

Miyama poet sings for tourism.

Khaled Mattawa's cultural dislocation.

The Poetry Now shortlist in the Irish Times.

Angel Island: "The poetry is what saved the building."

Patti Smith and Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg.

Mathea Harvey's Kimmasaccalottamely roots.

Henri Cole wins Lenore Marshall prize.

Elizabeth Alexander's stately lyrics at Emory.

The secret poems of a famous Manitoban.

The school librarian vs. the media specialist.

Goodbye Pittsburgh Poetry Forum.

AWP denizens recommend books to Chicago Tribune.

Andrew Motion says the Bible is "essential piece of cultural luggage."

Portland's poetry twins.

D.A. Powell's "double vision."

John Milton, complicated hero of humanity.

"Joseph Donahue is not a contemporary poet."

18-year old poet doesn't write about grandma.

Does a moody poem hold the secret of teen's death?

Young Pakistani poet fights Taliban with verse.

Kenyan poet blogs her way to notoriety.

Andrew Motion wants students to re-discover the classics.

Craig Arnold's break-up poetry.

Anne Carson's silence is a better language than most.

Sherman Alexie's Fibonacci Sequence poem in The Stranger.

Kansas selects poet laureate.

Padel pulls ahead in prof race.

Mae Winkler Goodman Samuel, Plain-Dealer poet, dies at 97.

Iowa names "symbolic leader of poetry."

Festival brings Edgar Poe to Toronto.

From Anne Bradstreet to Gwendolyn Brooks: American female writers reviewed.

Simon Armitage, a "new voice in lyric satire."

The Gulf Between Us: Margaret Atwood won't attend Dubai Festival.

Ann Arbor poetry bookseller in trouble.

A couple stimulus poems on Twitter (as good as they sound).

"There's always someone who says that poetry is dead."

American Hybrid's new poetry paradigm.

Lewis Turco takes on Robert Bly's "intuition."

Possum Ego shares Baraka reading Olson.

Kansans battle to keep Langston Hughes' church upright.

Does Eunoia annoy you?

Sluggish sales for “Praise Song.”

Adam Kirsch on the end of the professional writer.

"This is hell": An anti-love poem by Alan Dugan.

"The Museum of the History of the Future of the Book."

Overall sales down at Simon & Schuster; Digital sales up.

A poem for the Georgia House of Representatives.

"The thousand shots before": Get Lit in LA.

Zach Houston's Poem Store and more in San Francisco.

"Dammit I'm Mad": Demetri Martin's palindrome poem.

Shelley: a sonnet in high dudgeon.

David Orr: "American poetry may be about to run out of greatness."

Is literature proof of evolution?

Documenting Nashville's "Fugitive Poets."

University presses take on pirates.

Christopher Nolan, mute quadriplegic poet of Ireland, is dead at 43.

Iowa's "people's poet."

George Szirtes collects a continent.

The subterranean fame of John Montague.

Lee Upton parses purity.

Patton Oswalt for poet laureate.

Grossman wins big: Connecticut poet wins 2009 Bollingen Prize.

Robert Pinsky croons for Jbooks.com.

Test your literary Lent bent.

Canadian lit magazines under the gun.

On the farm with Robert Frost.

Library spends top dollar for Burns poem.

"I'm with you in Rockland": Don Masterson is burg's new laureate.

Another Brit against the laureateship.

The Great Poetry Bench Caper.

Cowboys rustle up some sonnets.

A second look at the profane wit of John Wilmot.

Bookies put the odds on Duffy.

Will the real Maya Angelou please tweet up?

Saul Williams won’t let you fall asleep.

Where the heck’s Fremd? Illinois high school’s Writers Week turns 15.

Tao Lin talks cash flow.

Duke poetry festival demystifies the art.

Muldoon on poetry’s weird science.

Richard Nash, Soft Skull mastermind, to step down.

The undomesticated Dorothy.

"Is that all there is?": Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense.

Electronic Arts' Inferno: "The poet-philosopher is now a hulking veteran of the Crusades."

David Berman's daddy issues.

Are Bruce Conner's films poetry?

Night poems: "The terrors of the world after dark."

"An ode to Madison's tribe of poets."

In praise of Christy Nolan.

Poetry on the buses: a reality check.

The Persian Sensation in Austin, Texas.

Stephen Spender: nearly great.

A poem (of sorts) for Roland W. Burris.