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Stephen Burt's Poetry Chronicle.

I am woman (poet), hear me be sometimes annoyed.

Negative capability = unconditional love: Farid Matuk in review.

Dylan Thomas on the edge of love.

Perverse fairy tale verse.

92Y or why not? An interview with the captain of the good ship.

Lawrence Rabb's History of Forgetting doesn't end there.

Shakespeare au naturel.

Empathy is toast: The Sotomayor Haiku.

The neglected poetry of ancient African swimwear.

Martha Collins live at The Frost Place.

Mulling Writers: A Massachusetts Poet Laureate?

A winning pryddest of cynghanedd or cywydd measure

"God looked down on Novia Scotia" while hockey poet Homerizes.

In the gutter, but looking at the stars.

Comrade Fatso and his Toyi Toyi.

Heavy meta: Pollitt on poems about poems.

Burns’ bonny Bible for sale.

Down under, down on Clive James.

Oxford remembered (Padel and Walcott days included).

Behind the lines in Afghanistan.

Poetry: what’s it worth, anyway?

Eva Mendes, Smiths fan and the world’s “best worst” poet.

Born 100 Years Agee.

Ode to a Grecian.

“Idiots” to judge National Poetry Slam.

Britain to celebrate its poetry heroes and heroines on National Poetry Day.

Cowboy (poetry) and Yosemite Indians agree on something.

Poetry for the tubas among us.

Just “showing off”: Teenagers “sext” for the same reason “poets writepoems, painters paint,” or adults drink too much at parties.

A playlist from Joe Pernice.

Happy 200th birthday, Tennyson! You can never go home again.

Pritchard loads the canon.

Oprah sued! Accused of thieving “A Tome of Poetry.”

Not so archaic: Cunningham’s pecs may have been model for Rilke poem.

“Touched by Robert Burns” in a good way.

Fishy doggerel on Obamacare.

“Poetry is literature denim”: news from Namibia.

Versifying vegetables in Yorkshire.

(Cowra) Breakout poetry; poet from Bush Slam to lead the way.

For a’ That and a’ That, a banner’s a banner.

The Material Girl and the Lonely Masturbator.

William H. Pritchard and "The Correction of Taste."

The Isle of Wight gets a Tennyson museum.

West Palm Beach slams it open.

Lost and found Landis Everson.

From bad to verse.

Themes on the Thames.

Of A. A. Milne and the passing of time.

In Brooklyn, non-concrete poetry.

Death of a literary Indonesian dissident.

A Canadian “Poe-pourri.”

Growing John Greenleaf Whittier's beard.

No Book Club for you! Poet sues Oprah for ridiculous sum.

Wordsworth and the “growth of a conservative’s mind.”

Pepsi says: Poetry readings produce optimum optimism.

Great poets steal: Why worry about shivs when plagiarism abounds?

Ah, for a Whittier poetry: returning to a 19th-century versifier.

When the tolerance poetry hits the fan.

Not reading, but performing.

Defeating cancer, winning laurels.

Too much love (and money) for art? Let’s move to Delaware!

Welsh “pub poet” writes lines on a lager.

On the road: Cornwall children advocate safe crossings.

New elegy in New Brunswick.

Looking out far and in deep: Joyce descendant on Indian river.

The private Wyatt.

First English translation of Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser.

Is civic poetry dead?

A Coney Island of the mind(s).

Au Bon poets: The Bagel Bards of Boston.

Who will be the next Prince of Poets?

Truly luxurious poetry covers.

Civic poetry: not dead, at least in Brussels.

This is the chorus primeval: Longfellow in song.

Passages in India: a study of anglophone verse from the subcontinent.

At the Fringe, beyond the veil.

In Pennysylvania, a poetry that moves.

Small poems, big bucks: the Denver haiku.

Who watches the Rorschach Poetry Collective?

Beloved by Princeton and poetry alike, Meryl Streep is awesome.

Just before he crossed the bar.

Are you the one? Michael Jackson poetry contest.

Prison poets plagiarize!

No limericks, please: Irish poet recuperates work from horse fair.

Slam dunk: St. Paul wins national poetry contest.

“Pardon me dear Montague”: The poetry diary of a soldier from World War II.

New publicity for a neo-Raphaelite.

“A cornerstone of golfing literature” on sale.

BBC to send poet to the front lines in Afghanistan for a little Wilfred Owen action.

Fried frogs and other poems: Indian poet rewrites English classics.

We lack access to Indian poetry . . . Urdu we? Persian and Urdu-speaking poets release anthology.

There ain’t no party like a Bath Spa party, featuring Apples & Snakes and Andrew Motion.

You can write anywhere after all: Latrinalia is the new marginalia.

Poetry opens doors, and cages.

Viggo Mortensen publishes anthology of Argentinian verse.

Coronation imminent in Abu Dhabi’s Prince of Poets contest.

Alice James’s Bonanno slams open the door to benefit shelter.

Nudie poetry: “Leaves of Grass” alive!

Awe-psalm: Herbert put to music.

O, for a draught of vintage! Financial types compete for wine in poetry contest.

“All is born again”: play resurrects Plath.

Ayr poet to exhibit in Shetland’s toilet stalls.

In the final countdown, what makes a football poet a winner?

Royal rhymester crowned! “Prince of Poets” contest concludes.

Twitterary developments.

Taking a leaf out of Chavez’s book? Emergency poetry relief.

Pounding Modernism into shape: a new biography of a complicated poet.

A play in memory of Thomas’s daughter.

Of larks and Larkin: call for aubades.

“Kook”-ing up a mixture of jazz and poetry.

Get yer new Pastelogram, Mongoose Civique or Ford Faberge today!

At the fringe, Duffy not stuffy.

Omnivorous children read Keats and Yeats in Sunny Hunny.

In matters of cricket, poems “just the ticket.”

British soldier-poet takes politicians to task.

“I am of Ireland”: Irish poetry and music not luxuries but necessities for identity.

Plays well with others: Kansas educators collaborate on Shakespeare instruction.

The Poetry Bench of San Diego.

Shakespeare and Dark Lady goof on the Virgin Mary in bizarre mountain out of molehill scandal.

Finally, an Olympics for indoor kids! English proposal for international language festival in 2012.

Alienated by Keats’s “alien corn”?

A Wave for Seattle poetry.

Negative capability in knitting: 800 volunteers add letter by letter to unknown woolly poem.

Man on whom nothing was lost: An interview with Albert Goldbarth.

The grit of the Bronx, the care of the craftsman: new edition of Donaghy.

“Difficult to get the news from poems,” eh? This blogger says it ain’t so.

Peresidential paeans: the verse of Israel's VP.

“Days of Poetry and Wine” rock Slovenia.

Song of auld acquaintance goes to auction.

Def poetry jam: Mos Def in Texas.

In land ruled by Prince of Poets, latest Million's Poet magazine released.

Brodsky-based film wins prize.

In Edinburgh, "Best of John Betjeman" not quite the best.

Ledbury churches to get a taste of the Poets’ Express.

Poetry by "solitude-loving raven" gains public exposure, again.

Good poetry, bad poetry, you're lucky if you're getting any.

Campbell McGrath's latest muse "Shannon" gets a whole book to himself.

It's Bad Poetry Day! Make some cash with the bad credit poetry contest.

How Forrest Gander is like Megadeth.

Read it and redden: the perverted poets of old London.

Family farm first, cattle farm second: cowboy poet shares observations.

Must I write on a disco stick? Lady Gaga's new ink featuring Rilke.

Marianne Moore and Maurice Sendak: Weird together at the Rosenbach Museum.

Poetry inspired by frost: UK’s Harbour Poets survive snow, publish volume.

Performance anxiety: Pollitt on the failures of readings.

Bookish Brooklyn starts training them young.

New creative writing courses to feature book fairy and experimental lyric poetry.

Verbal correspondences: in New England, postcard poetry.

New book on things with feathers.

Hot poetry tips from the Plain Dealer.

Clever Dedalus to escape financial woe with Christmas campaign.

Poem supports Englishmen behind the lines.

Shocker: Robin Williams’s poetry teacher character is unlikable, “needs to grow up” says director.

Oxford photographer turns to poetry to cope with daughter’s loss.

W.B. Yeats, a “forever” friend indeed.

Words writ on water? Armitage's may get carved in stone.

New Rimbaud bio as "brilliant and brief" as the life of its subject.

In Indonesia, anti-smoking poetry at odds with policy.

The Mad (Wo)Men of Poetry.

Poet Ravi Shankar's arrest.

Feel the Burns: cycling around the poet's home shire.

His brains, her Brawne: Film explores the romance of a Romantic.

Haiku is their bag.

For Ulster-Scots poet Burgess, burgeoning recognition.

Down under, a politician versifies about his bottom.

Rodeos, shoot-outs to keep cowboy poets on their toes.

Helen Vendler on the vivacity and fidelity of Wallace Stevens.

Karla Kuskin dies at 77.

Just another day in the wunderkammer of the British Library.

A Rackett at the Bowery: Paul Muldoon live and in concert!

Tagore honored at Disha annual celebration.

“Seductive” new collection boasts linked sonnets on Wordsworth.

“Like fertilizer on the human brain”: Carol Channing’s epic love story includes love of poetry.

“Greece, not Grease”: Reporter says “why?” to latest Shakespeare production.

Bollywood to bring out biopic on Punjabi poet Pash.

Interred with his bones? Lorca exhumed with family’s approval.

Witty, insightful, caustic: Kleinzhaler on music.

Samuel Johnson play is one-man-show on one-of-a-kind-man.

Hot tip book review: Angela Cleland.

Could psychologists pick another subject? Occupational hazards for poets.

Emily Dickinson installation art comes to St. Petersburg.

Dissertation haiku makes scholars concise.

“The golden age of poetry is now”: 70 poets to appear at Decatur Book Festival.

With perfect timing, Lorca exhumed, figuratively speaking, in new Chicago play.

On a poet called Chowder: Nicholson Baker presents latest character at English lit fest.

“Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe”: house where Keats died draws tourists.

Guardian readers ponder Paradise Lost, wasps.

When Ginsberg was a voice of the village, crying for legalization.

Would Rimbaud get past the search committee?

The brilliant miscellany of forgotten writer Benjamin De Casseres.

School children to draw poetic inspiration from Yellow Hat Tribe paintings.

See their pilot face to face: Charleston poets might get TV show.

Elaine Showalter brings in the judge and jury for women writers.

Texas poet laureate spins a yarn about shooting hood ornaments.

One comedian’s “Slutcracker” poetry soiree involves ridiculous speculation, cream cracker labels.

“The Civil War” musical incorporates letters, diaries, and Whitman’s poetry.

The German word for Ted Kennedy reciting Yeats and Blake at dinner time.

British soldier-poet writes about Afghanistan.

In Toledo, leading a poetry revival.

“Marriage is hard I told him”: O’Donnell’s poetic confession none too rosy.

Soviet poet and children’s author, Sergei Mikhalkov, has died.

Fakespeare at the Fringe.

August 27 through the years: A good day for fires, a bad day for poets (Milton, Frost).

Danowski doesn’t have this one: Only signed copy of Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 book of poetry resides in soon-to-be open Mayme Clayton Library and Museum.

St. Thomas University professor expounds on poetry’s place (not on the page).

The complex terms of Wallace Stevens' achievement.

Doling out the Kennedy poetry.

Former Tennyson home could close.

Readings against the end of the world.

An account of Baker’s Chowder and poetic overflow.

Naked lunch? British supermarket provides rhyming recipes.

Poetry in motion: “Poetry Bus” commemorates Turkish poet Ilhan Berk.

Keats House renovated; Keats romance reenacted; Keats still dead.

They heart Burns: Scotland launches new anthology.

Steel mills produce poetry for Ohio professor.

Poets from South Africa and elsewhere speak their mind.

Remembering Outback poet Will H. Ogilvie.

Pen mightier than sword? Poetry plaques attacked.

Logan reviews Glück, “stand-up vampire.”

Found in translation: 1001 American poems now in Arabic.

Juliana Spahr is a poet of “great imagination and daring.”

Levi’s and the Ace Hotel get Whitmanesque.

So bad he’s good: ridiculous rhymer wins British comedy prize.

Onion mocks estates; Times giggles, relates.

Minneapolis calling: The St. Paul Soapboxing Slam Team to perform.

“The Last Guy You’d Expect It From” writes a poem.

Does the poetry of the iPod Touch help ESL students?

Munich gets oriented: Arab VP’s poems come out in German.

Ukrainian politician wonders: whose lines are they, anyway?