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Tecumseh’s ekphrasis challenge.

Stephen Dobyns kills off the unexamined life.

What would happen if a bunch of yahoos ran the NEA? The LA Times reports.

"Pitt is on a mission and it's no mystery, we only halfway done and already made history."

Young, doomed and Canadian.

George Herbert’s humble pie.

Kurdish poetry primer.

Zaum und Drang at the Getty.

C. Day Lewis's Hope for Poetry turns 75.

Getting back into Dodge.

Haiku for a big blue mustang.

Bob Hicok's Michigan primer.

Enjoying the "erotic life of books."

Denver does bus poetry (See, Seattle).

Cognitive poetics in San Francisco.

The USA Today on the death of the arts, recession edition.

Dante's Vita Nuova "stupefying and banal" in Martynov's hands.

Wagoner's Roethke play goes on the road.

“Like downcast immigrants in steerage”: the Spectator on the crowded hull of contemporary poetry.

Spitting Shakespeare, channeling Tupac.

Zbigniew Herbert in the Garden.

Skelton poem reveals BELGIANS INVENTED CRICKET! England outraged.

In praise of Bill Holm, Minnesota poet.

Nabakov's Russian full of "canned music" and "baffling torsions of sense."

Missing poetry bench “never actually stolen.”

LA Times Book Prize announces poetry nominees.

Robert Burns' racy "Fornicator's Court" reprinted for charity.

Michael Jackson: poetaster.

When mariners rhyme.

“The woman’s movement was poetry.”

Mainer cops flip the script tonite!

The other Edsel Ford.

Chicago’s teen spirit.

Zombie Haiku.

Darwish poems launch Dubai International Poetry Fest.

The Affrilachian Poets Bus Tour.

Haydn, Jesus and Mark Strand.

Joni Mitchell and Miller Williams work it out.

Sharon Olds on what she talks about when she talks about herself.

Sufi poet’s shrine bombed in Pakistan.

Not the same old MPC-3000: A new London-based poetry sampler.

"Brave, crazy and beautiful": March is small press month.

Annie Finch's love poetry workshop.

The Taliban hate poetry, bomb shrine.

Of this world, in a mountain cabin, James Stroud makes luminous verse.

A smokeless Craig Arnold in Iowa City.

Fisher poets inspire more fisher poets.

Seeking "Deutsche Girl Poets."

Graywolf hits the big time.

"The simple truth is that Wallace would insist upon the juleps": Hungover Poe.

"With in / us": The winners of SPD's bad poem contest.

A new Poet's Choice at the Washington Post.

A new collection of Irish War Poetry.

Bringing the curtains down at Dubai’s poetry soiree.

The posthumous Michael Donaghy.

Back in Motion: UK poet laureate completes first book in 7 years. England rejoices.

Knocked out by literature at Shakespeare & Co.

“Howl” earns its name.

Misreading Mr. Frost.

Could poetry rebuild Iraq?

Listening to Philip Larkin.

The Colonoscopy Cantos.

Gary Young wins Shelley Award.

Does a recession equal a revivial for literature?

Signed, sealed, delivered: epistolary poems.

Sharon Olds on the glory of guts (and diaphragms).

Chris Martin's Beastie simulacrum.

NY Times readers still responding to Orr.

Original “love poetry generator” now available to all.

Barbara Guest, losing time.

Heid Erdrich's National Monuments.

Why do we undervalue women poets?

The New Yorker on Rhaman Baba.

An Anglo-Canadian roundup.

Ancient pottery poetry discovered.

Portrait of the Bard as a very wealthy man.

Greer on Rimbaud: “My patience with the deeply banal theme of anal sex is finally exhausted.”

Valéry, a poet who threw nothing away.

Will women run the poetry show?

How to save the newspaper: publish poetry.

Will write for beer.

Australia’s dust poets come out of their cabs.

Rhyming ‘recession.’

Yes, poetry does matter. In the UAE.

Seattle's midnight bus poetry.

The journals of ab-ex painter and O'Hara muse Grace Hartigan.

Random House buys Bay Area indie.

"No experience quite rivals standing in a US bookshop and staring up at the shelves."

PSA lauds "Genius and Need."

Love poetry and the first computer.

The Beats are back.

Andrew Joron and the art of transformation.

Buffalo poetry archive to get a digital retrofit.

Kleinzahler and Herrera win NBCC.

Noted biographer Richard Holmes reviews Darwin: A Life in Poems.

Rita Dove is the Washington Post's new choice.

Making meetings fun: poetry slam your next ROI.

Scotland’s poetry festival.

Polis is This: Charles Olson on PBS.

Welsh poet turns on the Tube.

Catching up with McClatchy.

Madoff in the 9th circle.

Walcott enters Oxford race.

Taoiseach woos Obama with Irish poetry.

Ellen Watson, poet of self-employment?

A poet laureate for the Bluegrass State.

The Migraine Madrigals.

Using poetry to fight annoying poly-sci profs.

Poem for St. Patrick’s Day from Laura Orem.

When it comes to Yeats, Sligo shrugs.

Killer King: weird Elvis lyric on auction.

The big book of Irish American poetry.

Sully, Hudson River plane hero, is a poet.

Submit to the Huffington Post.

"More tolerant and sustainable" poetry in the Women's Review of Books.

Boris’s “slightly wonky poetry jukebox.”

Rita Dove's "Sonata Mulattica."

Doty’s DeNiro moment.

A sneak peak at Franco's Ginsberg.

Gamers and lit majors unite! Dan Harris to do Dante.

Pinsky spies a damsel "naked on the bed of play."

Is not reading poetry a sign of cultural inadequacy?

Tennyson trail unveiled.

More midnight bus poetry from Seattle.

Reviving Christabel.

"Tragedy, triumph, love, lovesickness, and youthful curiosity." And Bicycles.

More on Mark Doty being chased out of North Beach.

Artists books, zines, and Anselm Berrigan: Buffalo’s small press book fair.

More Beats on screen.

The life and death of radical Irish poet Richard Dalton Williams.

Sonia Sanchez wins Creeley Award.

Fast chat with Ferlinghetti.

Heaney sums up a lifetime of poems.

Going negative squared: A negative review of a negative review.

The Guardian's poster poems blog says farewell.

Living vicariously through Rich Keplar's poems.

Recommended reading from Poets & Writers.

Was Paul Valéry the ultimate French intellectual?

The fashionable Ugly Duckling Presse.

Fanny Howe: outlaw poet.

Dylan Thomas loses it at the movies.

Jane Mayhall, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day poet, is dead at 90.

Obama quotes Sa’di, but will Iran listen?

A torrent of translations.

Armitage is the new laureate favorite.

UK Poet Laureate never to write “another no-good poem” again.

"The dogs are eating your mother": On Plath's darkness.

Rahm and Frederick save America.

Imagist gone wild on a Ducati: Seidel’s collected.

Lower East Side poet shaman Lionel Ziprin is dead.

Nicholas Hughes, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, commits suicide.

VQR up for National Mag Award.

Kleinzahler picks Kleinzahler.

Cultural Studies in the El Paso Times.

An update on Silicon Valley's laureate craze.

Ken yur Scottish poetry.

The poet stays in the picture.

The comic-book beats.

Poetry reality TV about to arrive.

Kinsella comes clean.

Adrienne Rich takes a second look at LeRoi Jones.

What kind of poet are you—mystic, monk, shaman, or warrior?

Twitter for the literati.

A poem for Jade Goody.

The inner weather, the outer weather, and Fanny Howe.

Ferlinghetti for the ages.

National Poetry Competition winner announced.

Library of America, keeping the country safe for literature.

Why Plath’s suicide matters.

Happy Birthday, modern poetry.

No golf, but lots of first edition in Houston bookshop.

Down in Texas, Beall Poetry Festival begins.

The Sun-Times at the Uptown Poetry Slam.

Padel on poetry and politics.

“You don’t have to say it’s you”: on poetry’s power to heal.

Dichos on display.

Start early—and take your dog—for Dickinson marathon reading.

It's springtime, and Garrison Keillor is thinking of poetry.

Is it the end of poetry?

More from Buk: MF Doom flips the script on Bukowski.

“Some people tell me that I’m / famous”: Bukowski fest inaugurates.

The deceptively simple tales of Taha Muhammad Ali.

Kay Ryan on compression and the laureate-ship.

Poetry the “real mode of transportation” for Dunya Mikhail.

Poe goes graphic.

Poet Pop Idols in Abu Dhabi.

Stephen Burt gets a time out.

El Cid author . . . Arab?

Poetry’s booming—in the UK.

BBC’s brief on laureate contenders.

A new Anne Carson classic.

The "Palestinian Century" in poetry.

“Our assorted diasporas” and the poetry of immigration

And now a word from the anthologists.

“Rap’s too easy”—Komunyakaa reveals inspiration.

Poetry’s isn’t kind, says Ryan.

Heaney’s birthday tribute.

Emin and Burns get bawdy.

Washington Univeristy's own Mary Jo Bang.

Poetry and politics: Eliot's rejection of Orwell.

Are you ready for National Poetry Month?

Over 2000 titles, but no concordance: Poets House annual showcase.

Dhani Jones does poetry for YOU.

Meatballs from the furniture store: Glenn Beck’s demotic.

Today everyone is a poet, but especially Russell Crowe.

Poets: here to help!

Ariel in the morning: poetry coffee cups from Pentagram.

Michael Collier's individual history in the Post

Can poetry save newspapers?