News Archive

Linh Dinh on getting fit.

"Should creative writing be taught?"

"The Smear": At least this time it's a poem.

Indian Prime Minister praises poet of "womanhood and feminism."

Don't call it a homecoming: Jean Thompson in Chicago.

Osip Mandelstam: the novel.

Ian Hamilton vs. John Updike: Who's bolder?

Griffin Poetry Prize announced tomorrow: Connolly! Moritz! Dodds! Young! Wright! Mahon! More Connolly?

August Kleinzahler: "Poetry is orgasmic."

Yeats on Tiller, O'Reilly, and the responsibilities of rhetoric.

Finally, poetry's fun again.

Ask the poet: Which road not taken?

The White House, HBO, satellite radio: Has slam poetry sold out?

Rethinking the Oxford Chair of Poetry: The case for Geoffrey Hill.

Last stop for poems on this route.

A new home for Poets House: "You’re not in an ivory tower.”

Do you know the owner of these poems?

Tonight: Griffin Poetry Prize.

"You made me want to be a saint." Happy birthday, Allen.

The bank chief, the poet, and "one of the best-kept secrets of Australian intellectual life."

James K. Baxter's experiment in communalism.

Ask the Recruiter: "Is it OK to make poetry part of my online persona?"

Googling for poetry.

Seventh annual Pushkin in Britain Festival.

A.F. Moritz and C.D. Wright win big at the Griffin Prize.

Chinese poetry today: "Highly allusive, atmospheric writing that, through arresting, resonant lines, calls forth a strong mood without necessarily conveying to the reader a discernible subject."

CA Conrad loves Elvis.

Poems of the French Open.

16 years after death, William Stafford returns to Lewis & Clark.

Cirque du Soleil founder on “poetic social mission” to space.

“W.S. Merwin’s The Shadow of Sirius deserved to win the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.”

Making bank with a kinder, gentler poetry.

Brenda Hillman: “Poetry is in great shape.”

America loves Rumi.

Cavafy, Ali, and Gunn in the Globe.

Why do we hate poetry?

Crystal Williams takes on race via metaphor and music.

Toronto's 12-year old poetry star.

Updike the poet bids farewell to Pennsylvania.

Dalkey Archive “belongs in Illinois.”

Do writers want to meet their public?

Texas poet, NRA member, “renaissance man.”

Poetry for scientists and science for poets in Santa Barbara.

A profile of Griffin-prize winner CD Wright.

Osama's poetic response to Obama.

"The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the specter at this dwindling feast."

Rick Moody on Artaud, poetry, and sickness.

Ange Mlinko on transcendence, Polito, and Wheeler.

Random bloke wants Oxford job.

Victoria Chang, MBA poet.

A poem for the Atlanta Braves.

Cavafy is for lovers.

"Howl" in Texas.

Dodge leader to step down.

A "new" Ted Hughes poem lost and found.

Kamala Das, Indian poet, dies.

Two million for BU Creative Writing.

Eros for the Prairie Home.

Harold Norse is dead.

Does motherhood ruin poetry?

Helicopters and vultures in Bethesda, Maryland.

Gorilla guy takes over for poet as new UK children's laureate.

The imagist revolution revisited.

"The greatest gay poet between Walt Whitman and John Ashbery."

Shacking up with Robert Frost.

Scenes from the Southern Fried Poetry Slam.

Wilfred Owen and Obama and killing the ram.

Shaman Drum, beloved Ann Arbor bookstore, set to close.

Crowning the prince of poetry.

Purple Rain and the anxiety of influence.

Holocaust Museum shooter quotes Pound, fears Illuminati.

O'Hara and Leslie on the big screen.

Revisiting Oldenburg's poem as artist statement.

The Turkish Language Olympics mix of poetry and faith

Poetry—and coffee—for seventh graders.

National Federation of State Poetry Societies takes over Duluth.

Harold Norse in the NYT.

Poets take over Israeli newspaper.

Byromania observed.

The Hollywood Beat.

Laureate Duffy dives in.

Poetry comes to the iPhone.

Summer reads (poetry included) from the National Post.

Sorrow and saudade for the Washington Post.

Ezra Pound never left Indiana.

Gyllenhaal poetry feud!

In praise of a maker.

Duffy vs. Manchester

Simon & Schuster opens online store, poetry scarce.

The poetry of "the most expensive woman artist."

Before Ahmadinejad, "Iranians were moved by the philosophy of poetry."

Edna O'Brien explores the "diabolical deeds" of Lord Byron.

Where UK Poets do it.

Nice Pulitzer. Where's the cash?

David Bromige R.I.P.

"If your life was a poem, what would it say?"

Velcro lines and wolverine passion in Kansas.

Bloomsday Irish accolades.

Poets set to swarm Martha's Vineyard.

Adonis sees Syria from both sides of the border.

Israel's kickboxing poet.

3-D poetry in Tennessee.

Elliot Carter gives voice to Marianne Moore.

Hafez and Goethe.

Orienteering with A Verse Map of Vancouver.

Darkness and the law in Iowa City.

The Twitter of Geoffrey Hill.

"The man who rode Yeats to victory" (and so on).

Poetry as a site of resistance.

A Human Eye offers Santa Cruz an invitation to awaken.

British poet Benjamin Zephaniah is looking for love.

The Homeboy Review.

The return of Poetry for the Masses.

"Poetry therapy" advocate dies.

A.E. Stallings, Catullus in Forbes.

Are you the next poet laureate of San Louis Obispo?

Jonathan Galassi wants publishers to decide what a book is worth.

Colbert and Muldoon: "Why do we need poetry when we have greeting cards?"

Obama: "I have a great affinity for Pakistani culture and the great Urdu poets."

Democratic vistas at Emory.

Exploring the Wichita poetry scene.

Starting scary, ending merry in Connecticut.

Dickinson's Amherst now top college town.

PoeTweet in the Motor City.

John Hegley's family values.

Poetry and 1,000 hits.

Lost in the land of allusion: Jordanian poet sentenced for lifting Quranic verses.

Ada Limón and the poem as "a buzzing thing that wants to be listened to."

Unintentional remix: Typos in famous poem cause suspensions.

Santa Clara's first county poem.

Poetry and the NBA Draft.

Poets survive the lean times in the Twin Cities.

Small press poetry distributor cuts staff.

Katha Pollitt: Poet's Choice.

Billy Collins says U.S. needs better poets.

Elizabeth Alexander and DJ Spooky.

"The Beat Generation's unsung hero finally gets his due."

"Ye olde Keatsian questions of Truth and Beauty."

Ismail Kadare wins Prince of Asturias literature prize.

Duffy haunt too loud for Worcester?

Walking Dylan Thomas's Wales.

The curious case of Dao Kim Hoa.

Will the future of Europe be decided by Seamus Heaney?

Poetry as a tool for social action.

Joe Biden digs Irish poetry.

Cambridge set to buy anti-war poet's papers.

Poetry sales "rocket" in UK.

From the LA archives: obscene verse goes postal.

Cops Hate Poetry redux.

In pursuit of a new Brooklyn laureate.

Hartford's spoken word renaissance.

Michael Jackson read Tagore poems in his last days.

Lorca in the Mission.

Poets for Palestine.

The Glastonbry poetry Twitter happening.

Daisy Fried on "Women's Poetry."

A compendium of unusual calls for submissions.

James Agee at 100.

The poetry of the Deadliest Catch.

Dancing to Alwar.

Reluctantly representing "P"oetry.

Robert Hass, rock star.

Duffy loves up the tabloids.

The Chicago Poetry Calendar Wars.

Santa Barbara's summer poetry picks.

Iran's 82-year old national poet reports.

The pivotal Sassoon.

Is poetry being dumbed down for the masses?

Poetry, Craigslist, and missed connections.

Sarah Manguso's Poet's Choice.

Celebrity poetry tattoos.

Lines from Frost in farewell to Justice Souter.

Katha Pollitt: Poetry's not dead.

Billy Collins goes to Paris; William Logan disapproves.

After Ellen picks: Oliver, Lorde, Hacker, and Duffy.

The Futurists turn 100.

Moyers talks to Merwin.

A hymn to the moon from Lady Montagu.

There once was a man at a horse fair.

James Baker Hall, former Kentucky laureate, dies.

Spanish Poet Victoriano Cremer dies.

Prairie Home Companion turns 35.

Mohammad Hoqouqi dies.