News Archive

Whitman sells Levi's.

The new haiku.

Iran's lyrical voices.

"A shift in sensibility": New female Indian poets in English.

Lil Wayne's poetry (and performance).

War and peace and Philip Metres.

The fall of Troy revisited.

Mark Sanford and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The prosody of atrocity: Ange Mlinko on Frederick Seidel.

Shocker: Literary critics praise writing programs.

"Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge" turns 13.

The Waterboys take on Yeats.

Happy Birthday, Wilsawa Szymborska.

Ode to Abe.

In praise of Google Books.

Goal: The writers and poets national team.

A call for superhero poetry.

Mary Oliver in Provincetown.

The raw and the cooked and the new poetic age.

Sensory deprivation and solitude for Jim Harrison.

Against Emma Lazarus: "Bad poetry makes for bad policy."

Obama hearts Pushkin.

Doubts about the remains of poet Everett Ruess.

Alexander Pope Sunk Your Battleship.

Basho and the death of a father.

Benjamin Zephaniah at home.

Don’t Fear the Reaper: World Music Meets Poetry (or Poets of the Caribbean 13).

The new poet laureate of Kansas.

"Like sex itself, poetry is about sensation."

The Beat brains in action.

Who will be the next Russian Poet Abroad to become royalty?

Eulogy for Kaleem Omar.

A Slamming Good Time in Manchester.

That’s a Real Typewriter, Kids! Poetry Busking in NYC.

Jacksonville doctor has passion for medicine and poetry.

The purple ditties of Giles Andreae.

Ugly, shy girl takes over UK spoken word.

"Sing our songs among the stars": Maya Angelou's poem to MJ.

Wincing poets' wrath of words.

NPR says poets are broke.

Wired wants Sharon Mesmer as Brooklyn poet laureate.

Poetry in (Bus) Lines.

Harry Potter Loves Poetry and Women of All Ages.

This just in: The Ledbury Poetry Festival is Hott.

Polarbear Performance Poet? Can you say it five times fast?

Poets in the Age of Wonder.

Remembering Harold Norse.

The National Endowment for the Arts money list.

Jay Parini chats with Gore Vidal.

"A well-crafted line can outshout a bullhorn."

Milkweed, Graywolf, Coffee House, and insensitive bastards.

Swinburne: master metrician and flogging fetishist.

Buy a poet's junk.

The new Ted Hughes Prize is better than a bust in the Abbey, maybe.

Frederick Seidel: master builder.

John Clare's extreme home makeover.

Shakespeare reigns supreme (or other poets should find something else to do).

Another disappointing day in the life of the Ancient Mariner.

Poetry in Scots that isn’t Rabbie Burns.

Space for poetry and arts gets mo money, mo problems.

Ventriloquists make better companions: On Siedel and Mayer.

Thom Gunn, the Cheese Who Stands Alone.

Harry Potter and the underground poetry scene.

Cowboys & cabernet in California.

Ruth Stone: "The poet looks at the world / as a woman looks at a man."

Expat Iranian poets in LA speak up.

The "occasionally sublime" Christopher Buckley wins Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.

Shaky dawg engages in future dialogue, screams blue murmurs as poets express rolls by.

First Wave poets wow Wisconsin.

April Bernard, Poet's Choice.

Norwich has no love for slam: "sideshow hawker, auctioneer or pitchman for cleaning products."

Kimiko Hahn's "little monstrous beings."

Carcanet launches new audio poetry site.

T.S. Eliot brokedown here.

Gary Snyder, mountain man.

PTSD sufferer, poet, suicide.

Poets of Guantanamo.

Publishing industry salaries exposed (or, surveyed at least)!

Twitter as "non-fiction poetry."

India remembers the poet Kamala Das.

Poetry takes over Rodeo Week.

Satire on president puts poet in the slammer in Egypt, for 3 years!

Katha Pollitt: Byron knew what women wanted.

Eight ways yoga is like poetry.

Are small presses at the forefront of a publishing golden age?

A poet's Frankenstein.

Don Draper's meditations in an emergency on DVD.

Poetry-in-apologetic-decline approach is so over, says BBC.

Joan of Arcadia joins the (Lit) industry with new poetry collection.

Last Words: John Updike's Endpoint reviewed.

Who wants to be the bard of his bar? Talented drinkers, take note.

Heeb Magazine does not like Harry Potter poems.

Egyptian poetry snark heads to jail.

The Wizard of Montauk: J.K. Rowling loves Whitman.

Archipelago Books needs help.

Def Poets' Society.

Sci-fi author and poet, Phyllis Gotlieb, is dead.

Baudelaire in Terre Haute.

Poetry DVD expected to sell out in Malawi.

King of the Russian slam poets sneers, spits, is missing part of an ear.

Latitude stands out on the literary (festival) map.

"Frickin' Hard": Poet with 300 children has to choose 20 for higher education opportunities.

Non-turtleneck wearing business blogger invokes Hemingway, advises readers: "Try poetry."

The new Oxford campaign: a progress report.

Cavafy in the coterie.

Expelling Jack Kerouac.

The West Bank doesn't want Leonard Cohen.

Happy birthday, Michael Longley.

A call for some "poems containing history."

Sacrificial poets and accidental slams in North Carolina.

Exploring the Hospital for Bad Poets.

Bunting's beautiful Briggflatts.

Letter to the Times: Leave Mary Oliver alone!

Seamus Heaney cried like a baby (after he suffered a stroke).

“Nicely chiseled” Swedes with books.

BF Fairchild's Usher unfortunately not about Usher.

Yeats and "the land of heart's desire."

Egyptian poet freed.

Anasuya Sengupta and Hillary Clinton: "Too many women in too many countries speak the same language of silence."

Spanish pilgrims beat a path to the grave of “pathmaker” poet Antonio Machado

Jamaica’s DJ Poet says: “Stay the course . . . It doesn’t matter how small the audience.”

Live from Didim! Turkey’s top 28 female poets to attend Art and Literature Days Festival

Armed human scarecrow shoots crows in poetry coat.

Skateboard poet.

John Keats slept here.

Young, Gifted and Black: CNN doc "Black in America 2" offers spoken word videos from 8th graders.

Beat Museum has "no fear of redundancy."

Despite poetry, vegetarians still won't try the meatballs.

Wang Wei: "He lived at a time and in a place when . . . educated people wrote poems the way we text or tweet."

Dove Cottage Poets expected to plash like hares in Grasmere during annual meeting.

Bookslam rocks London (in a writerly way).

Best bet: Ferlinghetti at San Francisco International Poetry Festival.

Yeats, Watson, and the British Open.

A Twitterist's "Poet's Cottage."

Reynolds Wrap poet is dead.

Black Elk, poetry, and beer.

Kipling poem helps perpetuate "Orientalist" sex fantasy.

"Complete lack of pretension" performance poetry.

Cowboy Poetry: "It just happens."

Langston Hughes boyhood home sold in foreclosure for less than a Hyundai.

Dana Gioia made the most of it.

The Forward Poetry Prize shortlist.

The graves of the poets road trip.

Moving Forward (Poetry Prizes): Australia's bid for international laurels.

The Stirrup Pants renaissance! Finally, a chapbook consignment shop!

Poetry as antidote to summer blockbusters.

ESPN weighs in on Brave New Voices.

New Zealand laureate gets "storytelling stick," $100,000.

No ideas but in underwear.

Funding dead poets.

Punk poetry with Eileen Myles, Richard Hell, and Saul Williams.

Are collected poems complete?

Absinthe milkshakes, found texts, and Canadian poets.

Harlan Boe, prairie poet.

Beast women poets celebrate "primal strength."

New Zealand poet holds the dead in linguistic consciousness.

Trashbots, cereal boxes, war, and British poetry.

Are academics like teenagers?

"This Be The Verse" that changes lives.

Flarf classics?

Is it true that "true poets suffer"?

Salt floats! “Just One Book” keeps the doors open.

He fathers-forth festivals.

Finagling an Australian honor for Wright the poet, not the rapist.

College creative writing courses swell, “slackers need not apply.”

"No biggie": 90-year old nun recites and recites.

"There is a pang there (in Pennsylvania) that makes poetry."

Seattle's Poet Populist and "The Dude."

Merce Cunningham is dead.

Baltimore music critic and poetry lover, Michael Steinberg, is dead.

Poet's Choice: Kevin Prufer.

Dr. Abad ain’t bad—Filipino poet wins coveted Premio Feronia prize.

Rockstar Poetry Project is a bad mutha.

Stopping by Urology on a snowy evening.

Duffy gets her war on.

SloPo in Buffalo.

Dylan Thomas' only daughter has died.

Problem solved! A poem for Skip Gates.

Byron still badass. (Video)

“Monstrous snail” inspires and refreshes.

Conan O’Brien: “Palin’s exit speech is a poem!” Captain Kirk recites.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has some Snark in it, too.

The “Scottish equivalent of Shakespeare” gets a plaque in Inverness.

Bite-sized poetry?

No more poetry in Las Vegas.

Kerouac's will a fake, estate in limbo.

At-risk poetry in South Carolina.

John Dickson, poet and grain trader, is dead.

Michael Cera and the Paper Heart poems.

Slam poetry for your "inner pervert."

Khari B., the "Discopoet."

A vis-po view of Paris.

A further look into the restored home of John Keats.

Strange bedfellows: Ginsberg and Trilling.

Carol Ann Duffy's "Last Post" in honor of WWI.

Ryan Adams has the poetry blues.

UK poet busted for "sexting."

A Nantucker's poem to God.

Bonanno's new poems document "the aftermath of the murder of her daughter"

Wendell Berry to visit the land of cheddar.

Charles Simic in New Hampshire.

Dulce - No - Decorum - No - Pro patria mori.

Santa Cruz when it sizzles (Midsummer, as it turns out)

Happy Birthday, Emily Bronte!

Get real: Carl Phillips warns crowd to leave "if you were hoping this would be light and fun."

Shatner as Palin the Beat Poet Part II.

The literature of irresolution: Postwar Polish Poetry.

Malt Whitman: Literary ice cream flavors in the works?

Literary death match: when famous writers fight.

Publishers Weekly is for sale.

"Robert Frost was never this hot."

A bite-size poem.