News Archive

Three centuries in the making: Carol Ann Duffy as laureate.

Craig Arnold missing.

Looking for clues to a triple homicide in professor's poetry.

Bones of '30s poet Everett Ruess found in Utah.

Your mum and dad: Justice quotes Larkin in sentencing.

More than oneself: the collected Oppen.

Geoffery Hill: Keep your distance.

The Russel Crowe Puzzle Poem.

Poetry@Harvard.

Twitter's army of armchair poets.

Wordsworth advice to Southey worth thousands.

Michael Tyrell’s final answers.

“Hi, I’m a wanker”: meet the new British poets.

Was Updike a real poet?

Britain through its poets’ eyes.

The recession in meter and rhyme.

Michael Madsen, poet among men.

St. Paul’s call for sidewalk poetry.

An FAQ for Google Books.

Devin Johnston's “Early April.”

Tolkien’s long posthumous poem.

Bono hearts Elvis.

Parini on Snodgrass.

Paradise Filmed: 3D Milton movie coming soon.

Tretheway stirs up the South Korean scene.

Giants about to draft mystery poet?

Appreciating Fanthorpe.

Katrina in verse, for better or worse.

The WSJ goes negative.

On Taha Muhammad Ali's happiness.

Reviewing Oswald’s “flora of the psyche.”

Denis Johnson discovers he’s “dull.”

Poets and their beards.

When women speak, the Gulf now listens.

Poems of the super-famous.

Translating “the Irish of Asia.”

Whence Whitsun Weddings.

Colonoscopy coterie announced.

Articulating Shakespeare's brain.

Craig Arnold’s trail found.

“The most important poet you’ve never heard of.”

Bashing American Hybrid.

Mother writes poetry, baby drowns.

J. Michael Martinez wins Whitman award.

Faber’s weekly poetry gadget.

Poetry publishers spill their secrets.

Mental illness and creativity.

The most troubling library in the history of the world.

Royals poetry (via Kansas City).

Robin Blaser has died.

Lemony Snicket likes Joshua Beckman.

“Baby needs a treat”: San Francisco's Pet Haiku Contest.

The Guardian's poetry workshop: collisions.

Jim Jarmusch likes the Oulipo.

Ancient poetry's digital recovery.

Indie publishers tell Amazon thanks but no thanks.

Craig Arnold presumed dead.

Basra bursts with poets.

Oxford race takes tabloid turn.

Poets and astronomers boldly go.

Poetry slam at 1600.

Why the laureateship matters (according to Clive James).

Lieberson cantata collages the greats.

Dancing Emily Dickinson.

"Flat is the new up" for the book biz.

Walcott withdraws from Oxford race.

Poems on uniforms: the Combat Paper Project.

Dante Rossetti, grave robber.

Influential Irish editor, David Marcus, has died.

Ted Hughes, tree hugger.

Ibsen, meet Darwish.

Matthew Dickman’s Florence of the Northwest.

Grad student = jerk equation solved.

Why performing poetry is back.

Tonight: White House Poetry Jam.

In memory of Robin Blaser.

More to Kirkup than “Love.”

Inventing Chinese poetry.

Chicago Trib on the search for Craig Arnold.

Post-Walcott, Oxford will vote on.

Belgian poets in Beirut.

Trying out a poetry scam.

“It is just as I feared!”: we missed Limerick day.

A poets guide to birds.

The Washington Post on the White House poetry jam.

Climbing team set to look for Craig Arnold.

Po-mo death match is Flarf vs. Conceptual.

Biker murder solved by sappy love poem?

Ian McDonald a finalist for the Ondaatje Prize.

Katha Pollitt's mind-body problem.

Pongo publishes Juvie poets.

The art of Louisville bus shelters.

Poems for TMNT.

Tomorrow is Ferdowsi Day.

Colorado's Whitman (award winner).

Former accuser: "Derek Walcott is our greatest living poet."

Should the Oxford election be suspended?

Campion does Keats.

Rod McKuen speaks.

Cordelia Brown, Northern California poet, is dead

Profile of Oxford pick Padel.

Padel’s own kitchen sex scandal.

Merwin in Jersey.

Campion tries Keats.

Becoming the human eye.

Utah inboxes get blasted by poetry.

“You and me as works in progress”: poetry therapy.

Yoko Ono, Twitter poetry, trains: why the UK’s still cool.

Is the 21st Century muse free?

An off-the-cuff couplet from Carol Ann.

Huckabee’s anti-Pelosi poetasting.

Bono’s Elvis poem . . . sucks.

Mario Benedetti R.I.P.

“The devil you know”: The New Yorker and Ciaran Carson.

The dying art of reading aloud.

Di Prima new San Fran laureate.

Young poet totally wins big.

Shoppers beware! BBC launches Poetry Season.

Publishers Weekly's latest poetry picks.

Dylan’s juvenilia (or not).

Parsing Chairman Mao.

Big bucks for undergrad poet.

Jack Kerouac's fantasy baseball.

At the Bright Star premier.

Forbes goes poetic for Cohen.

Oswald and Allnutt, Brits.

Does the Guardian hate Ruth Padel?

A call to help save Salt Publishing.

Canadian poets think and sing.

Shakespeare's basement tapes.

Kaufman’s California blues.

Oscar’s wild library.

David Orr on Craig Arnold.

Poppies, poetry, and Memorial Day.

Hay Fest is the great Welsh leveler.

Senior guys “pumped up” about poetry.

Foetry international: Arab poetry prize winner turns out Jewish.

Study: Brits baffled by poetry.

Frost farm for sale.

Oxford didn’t always love Marechera.

Stephen Ziliak: economics without poetry is blind.

Happy B-day Pope; RIP Kit Smart.

Libraries and Google strike a deal.

Barcelona's E-Poetry Fest.

Padel resigns in latest Oxford twist.

Auden poems re-surface in film archives.

WSJ discovers John Clare.

Frederick Seidel: “One of poetry's few truly scary characters.”

Karla Morton on battling cancer, becoming laureate.

“The end of taking the piss”: Duffy’s poetic vocation.

Long live literary London.

Hear all the Hay Fest chat.

BBC poet off to war.

Poetry in Charlottesville.

Kids poetry in trouble.

Shakespeare's mystery and Shakespeare's certainty.

Was Padel set up?

Walking Wallace Stevens.

The dubious side of Donne.

Updike's chunk of the planet.

Suitcase of poetry lets son finally talk to his dad.

Head to Bloomington this June.

Burns exhibit bears mixed results.

Does Morrissey pen poems or songs?

Snyder’s back in Seattle.

Buying into Salt’s Just One Book.

Next bets for Oxford.

Censored Duffy poem “misread.”

Larkin “literary safari.”

The thrilling Osip Mandelstam.

“The camera is an eye in the head of a poet”: Video poetry.

Poets prove recession-proof.

Cast a wider net, Heaney suggests to Oxford.

Louisiana’s literary legacy in trouble.

McGrath’s epic expedition.

Cracking open the Kindle.

Scientists, artists unite!

Lorca’s “doomed love” on-screen.

Canada’s supercool laureate.

Love poetry’s hard, admits laureate.