News Archive

Frontlines: contemporary war poetry on the BBC.

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude.

Against lazy laureates.

Wendell Berry on stage in Louisville.

Homeless man's Harvard Square bookstall shuttered.

More NCAA poetry: Mizzou's Zaire Taylor set to publish "Smoking Ls."

In Abu Dhabi it's Millions Poets and, for the first time, a woman.

"Today I Die" of "Today I Shine": poetry for gamers in San Francisco.

The Arts=Jobs?

Abraham Lincoln knew a little something about poetry.

Is there too much money in poetry?

John Giorno: "The unheralded visionary of the New York scene."

Poets spotlight their faves for April.

A poem a day from Knopf.

A poem a day from GottaBook.

Poems Out Loud (not to be confused with Poetry Out Loud) from Norton.

The New Yorker's Rebecca Mead on the Dickman twins. (registration required)

The Poets & Writers poetry challenge.

Wynton Marsalis, Joan Baez, Maggie Gyllenhaal, poetry, and the creative mind.

American Hybrid: "no camp and all camps at once."

The troubled legacy of Plath, Hughes, and Sexton.

The greatest poet of the Great War?

Updike out loud.

“This bright-skinned papa’s boy”: Rita Dove’s Sonata Mulattica.

30 poets, 30 days, 30 podcasts.

Seamus Heaney, bronzed.

“Our society has slaughtered poetry.”

Declaim the joy’s of Jersey spring.

Examining exuberance with Shaughnessy and Wolfson.

Is the economy good for small bookstores?

"You do not need an iPod. Memorize poetry instead."

Another look at Walt Whitman's civil war.

Oulipians for eternity at the New School.

The Project Papers get a new life.

Identity politics, war poetry, Brian Turner, and Araki Yasusada.

Charles Olson, "equal parts bear and shaman," on PBS.

A poem a day in the Seattle Times.

Poems for the wee ones.

Authors, claim your identity—for only a small fee!

Springtime in the south Devon turf with Alice Oswald.

Deal or no deal with Nikki Giovanni.

The Griffin Prize shortlist.

Chip Kidd, Dr. Seuss, Emily Dickinson, and "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

Faber's 80th anniversary.

Latino/a Poetry Fest at Miami of Ohio.

Jacques Roubaud's pink oranges.

A slam poet and "classic surrealist" closes out the SDMA "Black Womanhood" exhibit.

"The most effective, most true mneumonic device."

Bookninja takes on NaPoMo.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, poet.

Get a personalized edition of a Penguin Classic!

Examining the close ties surrounding the Griffin Prize.

Egypt bans literary journal for blasphemous poem.

“Africadian” poet's new book of blues and bliss.

Poetry picks from Fort Worth.

Does Seamus Heaney mean bikini?

Poetry perplexes USA Today.

How to build your own letterpress.

Is poetry in the midst of “a worldwide movement, a renaissance”?

Judging a book by its author photo.

Is “all bookselling local”?

The 2009 Guggenheim list.

The New Economy: Poets are always broke, anyway.

The lyric poems of Simon Pettet.

Different sex, different book.

Leonard Cohen compares mythologies.

DIY magnetic poetry.

Exclaiming Chelsey Minnis and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Poetry hits the small screen.

Saadi of Shiraz poem headed to White House.

Frederick Siedel: Motorcycles, stoned punting, and feeding steak to hummingbirds.

“At Easter, one should read poetry.”

It’s a bird! William Stafford saves the world.

The true teenage medium.

American Hybrid presents poetry "like abstract art in its heyday."

Listening to the Alhambra.

 A closer look at the death of Nicholas Hughes.

 What key is Seamus Heaney in?

Only in the dreams of Gayle Danley.

The Newest Critics: “tweet textual analysis.”

Oxford poet race now a two horse sprint. 

UK poetry discovers the internet.

Fighting in fourteeners.

Poet Deborah Digges has died.

Poet-Playwright-M.D.

Spoon River for the stage.

“Not just people mumbling into their beer”: Norfolk’s poetry fest.

Biker poetry anthology “a crazy, two-wheeled power drift.”

Amazon regrets "ham-fisted" cataloging error that banished gay themes.

Updike's Endpoint.

Karadzic poems under fire from PEN.

How Garrison gets his girls.

A tribute to Deborah Digges.

Franklin Rosemont and the last of the avant-garde.

Mass recitation breaks Guinness world record.

New Chicago poets?

New members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

We meet in the Book Cover Archive.

Is poetry wasted on the young?

Coming to your neighborhood farmer's market: Read Local.

Recent poetry picks from Reno.

Is that a poem in your pocket...?

Taking a look at the Kingsley-Tufts winners.

For “myth” read “lie”: the poetry of Karadzic.

The small press scene in Buffalo.

Poetry for putting.

Kay Ryan ready for Round Two.

Sadr’s poetry marks invasion anniversary.

Amy heading for a night without armor?

The magnificent Mr. Motion.

Mary Oliver: Watching the river flow.

Rimbaud broke rules—in Latin.

Galesville celebrates Sandburg “as is.”

Stephen Burt in Entertainment Weekly

“Spring poetry on an unsuspecting world”: Marathon reading tomorrow.

Merwin makes it again: second Pulitzer for The Shadow of Sirius author.

How Cavafy "survives translation."

To hook students, do away with Ashbery.

Two new Issa haiku discovered.

Erasmus told Charles, Charles told Ruth, and Ruth told us.

400 years for Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Poetry for prisoners.

Philly’s fantastic poetry scene.

Mary Oliver tops new bestseller list.

How the poems get out.

Brenda Hillman takes on tweeting, thinking and technique.

The life and tough times of a slammer.

After all these years, Pulitzer-prize winnner Merwin still surprised by his poems.

Yeats plays finally get their due.

Kirsch on Taha Muhammad Ali’s “quasi-biography.”

Dundee still doesn’t like McGonagall.

The Pulitzer finalists—and winners

Video: Flarf vs. Conceptualists at the Whitney.

Asheville’s scene going global.

Jeff Kass wrestles with poetry—literally.

Muldoon hosts Princeton’s first poetry fest.

“You’re not old enough to remember how dull the 50s were’: Robert Bly conference held at U of Minnesota

Sylvia Plath: forsaken.

Linda Gregg wins Jackson Poetry Prize.

El-Shafie’s rebellious robot startles Arab poetry world.

Zadie Smith reading Frank O'Hara on the Poetry Meme.

Noelle Kocot’s poetry of incidence.

The Cohen School of lit crit.

Poems for the first 100 days.

Ode to distraction: Boys do best with fewer girls in English classes.

London Book Fair abuzz despite economy.

Kent Johnson and the Western world.

Don’t call your poem “Homecoming!” And other title tips from VQR.

D.A. Powell gets gently Houlihammered.

Oxford, meet Mehrota.

Celebrating “Shakespeare Death Day Equivalence.”

An “expressive journey” through the history of poetry.

Wales Book of the Year longlist.

Write on, Sac.

Updike's final “fun doom in the sun.”

Gary Snyder's Earth Day.

Carol Ann Duffy takes the laureate lead.

One man plays “Simply Langston!”

Automatic for the people: books published while you wait.

Poetry behind the school house gates.

Drinking wine with David Hinton.

Jim Harrison: larceny and poetic licence.

The WSJ takes on Yeats.

The best “good hater” goes under review.

Ashbery’s long adolescence.

Joy Harjo and University of New Mexico at odds.

Morgan off the Mile.

Is this where Marianne had milkshakes? A Brooklyn poet answers all.

Pashtun poets write the “ill fate” of Afghanistan.

Ruth Stone still has both hands going.

Joel Brouwer rounds up.

Reverse-engineering the dictionary.

Everyman soothes the savage beast.

Boston makes peace with Poe.

10 years, 8 poems, 700 bottles of sherry: the laureate’s life.

Hang your head for Hart today.

Justice Stevens takes on Shakespeare.

Fighting for Afghanistan with a poet's weapons.

Duffy awaits the Queen's approval.

Margaret Walker set to song.

Dane Erik Stinus wins Hikmet Poetry Award.

Looking for a little help from Dizzee Rascal.

“Discovery” winners announced.

“It’s very dark and it’s about this guy”: Franco films Bidart.

Prostituting poets in NYC.

Debating the louche at the NYT.

Young Dub David Mohan wins Hennessy award.

Olson’s “polis” on screen.

Poetry Death Match in St. Louis.

Possible trouble for Google Books?

Sandra Cisnero and the invention of Latina lit.

"Another Erdrich wins!"

Susan Wheeler: Poet's Choice.

Mayor Bloomberg puts a poem in your pocket.

Levine’s prescient elegies for Detroit.

Moxley’s political persuasions.

Jiří Gruša on poetry, Czech identity, and beer.

Poetry “once again dangerous” in Russia.