News Archive

“The mind is its own place”: poet-psychiatrist maps writers’ psyches.

Food laureates for UK supermarket.

Caracas-based poet wins Mexican prize.

Poets House to re-open in Battery Park City.

Elle Macpherson’s poetics of intimacy.

Paradise lost, if he ever had it: New Zealand poet Campbell dies.

Nakespeare?

Getting the news from poems: Australian journalist designates himself “verse correspondent.”

More than just a pretty zip code, SW11 also a Lit Festival.

Ali to Zucker and a bag of chips: Library Journal full of praise for two new collections.

Science blogger wishes to hit journalist with Norton Anthology.

Calling all girls from Nantucket! A Limerick slam in Santa Barbara.

Rare poetry manuscripts of British WWI poet Blunden now online.

Getting into Bedouins: Abu Dhabi academy examines Nabati poetry.

Quoth the playbill, “Nevermore”!  Hollywood one-man show on Poe.

Classism in poetry class.

Spotlight on: LGBT poets, artists, singers, math whizzes.

Post poetry slam, the next new thing complete with gong.

The joy of libraries, found in rhyming kids books.

Nice girls and poet fire burn up the City Lights anthology.

Finding limericks in Nevada.

Poet Craig Arnold remembered.

Iowa entrepreneurs: Abramson Leslie Consulting wants to see your portfolio.

English made Arabic—the new Kalima anthology to include American poets Plath, Simic, etc.

Director of Lit at Australian Council for the Arts looks forward to dancing poems on Kindle.

In Wales, Lear king of nonsense verse.

“Literature of Desire” panel to steam up Iowa City like a love car in that poem by Lowell.

Questions of taste: the “pickled poets” of Canada.

Galway poetry unusually healthy, says journalist, reviewing pals.

In India, blank verse and rich drama.

On a Mission: SF musician collaborates with homeless, ill, or disabled poets.

Bus-ting out: young African poets hit the road.

Memorial for poet and Holocaust survivor Jean Klein Frank in La Jolla, California.

Tolkiens of appreciation: son edits father’s poems.

Sound poetry: Kleinzahler’s musings on music.

“Sijo” verse: new Korea move for US poets.

Australia: Ryan A-O-Kay.

Teachout speaks out in favor of a plainer Shakespeare.

Something fishy: Oregon’s “salmon poet.”

In Wales, new thoughts on old anthology.

Santa Cruz poet masters art of losing.

War poetry: “A gift designed to kill.”

Sinclair Beiles, an unheard African Beat.

Poetic feet, shod in cute poetic shoes.

An OK Pentecostal poet.

Fiddling with words: Alaskan poet-musician roves country.

Gwalior poetry of the Scindia School.

Cape Cod likes clouds, in the sky or on the page.

Give pencils for poetry!

Performance poet and Grand Slam champ gets environmental.

New albums: Frank Turner “knew Prufrock before he got famous.”

Auden's love at seventy.

UK poets help out hospice.

Baker’s Chowder gets rave reviews (This is not about food).

The cringe-a-minute NPR, poetry, Twitter mashup.

All together now: Wallace Shawn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Strand, and Noam Chomsky.

Perez Hilton and poet Emanuel Xavier talk on being Latino and gay in America.

“Dae Ye See”? Ulster Scots poet is recommended reading in Belfast.

England is paying for poetry, 3 quid at the door.

How love moves us: a Filipino poet on migrant romance.

A novel approach to Mandelstamiana.

Work of late Russian anthem lyricist on display.

Tennyson not a surfer.

Those two talents? Of Milton’s blindness and a basketball player’s weakness.

Garrison Keillor resting after stroke.

2009 National Poetry Series winners announced.

Australian romantics to “grasp the nettle.”

He, too, dislikes it: Baker says poetry is “wasteful” and “inefficient,” but also kind of great.

A Malaysian quatrain for caution on the roads.

Manhattan theater brings verse Homer.

Public library presents Poetry for Peace.

Bush poets preside over Australian fair.

In new play, free verse on snagged activists.

Martin Luther King, Jr. poetry series to open at Clarion University.

A starry night in Bridport expected with the Lit Fest’s fancy line up.

Rediscovering a former Texas laureate.

Blake in hallelujah country.

Isn’t it Romantic? Keats’s star-crossed love affair.

Bee Hut generates buzz for late Australian poet.

Lyric poets honor Belfast’s Lyric Theatre.

In Tripoli, international port and poetry.

“Vegetables in Verse” to nourish hospice.

In India, Othello makes a Kathakali killing.

In the money: English poet’s face to appear on “Stroud pound.”

Too indie for their own good? Independent Shakespeare Co. switches out the bard in favor of a “Changeling.”

Puerto Rico’s Young Lords celebrate 40 years, poet and founding member Esteves performs.

Spoken word artists Sister Spit to rauc the LadyFest.

Slam 101: Zombie poets in Minnesota.

Last volume by Darwish—pusher of political and literary boundaries—translated into English.

No saints they: revisiting Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets.”

“Primed for the muse”? Keats and Brawne, now playing.

Most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, not so wonderful.

The Chicago School vs. the New Chicago School.

Poet Jim Carroll has died (at his writing desk).

Two Ednas and a poetic education.

New online poet-in-residence for British charity Booktrust.

Remembering a community’s Service.

In new book, Nigerian writer offers a poem per day.

In Yorkshire, a bard of the bar (and bark).

Light-hearted lines on lined faces.

Babies, rejoice: it’s Timmy the Tug! New Ted Hughes for a brand spankin’ new crop of readers.

Prayers and poetry for lepers.

Charles Bukowski hates Mickey Mouse.

School of Hip Hop: The latest “Book of Rhymes.”

Their books are worn, and so are they: Poe and Whitman shirts for sale.

Was Shakespeare a genius? How about Picasso? Hitler?

Sell out or sell low, indie publishing in Britain pays the same as the big houses.

British soldier-poet urges writing about fighting.

Bright Star drinks bubble tea, inspires Keatsian doggerel.

Verses and virgins.

Polish poet Sommer gains by translation.

Mourning a poet with yens for wrens, rocks, and writing.

“Literature or other”: An interview with Sarah Manguso.

A.O. Scott’s romance with Bright Star.

In New Orleans, “every poem an epitaph.”

Taking art history Homer.

The many definitions of Dr. Johnson.

Skinny jeans: a challenge to form.

Pimp my ride? No, Pimp Your Vocab.

How many poems would you get if you could print the internet?

Jim Carroll remembered with piercing, colorful wake.

Free verse comes at a cost in Jess Walter’s latest novel.

Notes toward a supreme poetry.

Menashe in the mode of the Torah: “Cryptic, mythically abrupt, but enduring.”

No phony Bolaño: a guided tour to Chile’s delectable poet-novelist.

“Poetry is indiscriminatory”? Seattle journalist’s rank speculations amuse.

G-20 haikus in Pittsburgh mark new era of dipoemacy.

Jasmine Guy on Whitley Gilbert, Spike Lee and Langston Hughes.

Ashbery reflects on “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”

Keats film hailed as “art-house catnip.”

Rookie poets rock “bookish festival” in Welsh village.

Another remembrance for Jim Carroll.

Dr. Johnson “not nice,” suggests NYRB.

Seeing Dickinson behind the door.

Jim Carroll's death leaves a "void."

Rebecca Wolff on death, birth, and other matters.

On the anniversary, reviving Yeats’s burial.

Poet's inspiration?  "I stand around in dark alleys, praying to get victimized."

Found apartment, found poetry: the unexpected verse of Craigslist.

Lightly rapping? Electric Poe rocks the stage.

“And for all this, nature is never spent”: Hopkins’s ministry helps a Californian endure wildfires.

Wishing Dr. Johnson a nice birthday, just the same.

“The mind blanks at the glare”: Larkin electrifies Youtube.

Troubles with the spoken word push Toledo teen to poetry.

Nice body . . . of work.

We’ve lost that formal feeling, sez Zapruder.

Poet’s Choice disappeared from Homecoming dances and newspapers across the country!

“We’re all going to die”: Fried on the dark and light of Franz Wright.

Fieldtrip! In Dublin, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a literary landmark.

Casting a cold eye on a “little light necking,” HuffPost goes after Keats and Fanny.

“Earth, receive an honoured guest”: W.B. Yeats’s overdue burial recalled in 1948 clipping.

Carroll and Bukowski on the micro-silver screen.

Huffpo falls for poetry.

Why America endures the abuses of Samuel Johnson.

Richard Holmes on his “space-walk” into science writing.

A summer of madeleines and mausoleums: Meghan O’Rourke shares her reading list.

The glamour and grammar of Veronica Forrest-Thomson.

Poetry Foundation contributor Heather McHugh is a genius, and has the cash to prove it.

Mad Men and “spiteful” critiques dominate David Wagoner’s intro to Best New AmPo 2009.

Grenier introduces himself to Eigner, Eigner to us.

Harrison, a public and private poet, wins Pinter prize.

Poetry: what not to do.

Immigration and revolution = long letters, negative capability: Interviewing Jane Campion.

word for /word on Carrier’s translations/reader’s guides/etc.

Claudia Rankine on anthologies, personae, and the Bronx.

Dante’s cosmic visions did not include this.

A darkness only Young Werther could understand.

Bettor pick your pony: The odds on this year’s Nobel hopefuls.

“An eye reflecting images endlessly”: New sculpture at the Royal Academy of the Arts inspired by Rilke.

McHugh feels “bottled,” and who could blame her? McHugh on NPR, too.

The national and literary paradoxes of Darwish.

“Like loving a woman with a broken nose”: New Granta on Chicago reviewed across the pond.

The platonic love affair between Ted Hughes and the Queen Mum.

Poetic inspiration comes from on high. So do collapsing roofs.

Fort Greene’s “poem on the post.”

Let history repeat itself, Mr. President—it’s time for a new Federal Writers Project.

The next Harry Potter could be penned by a poet! Mark Haddon on Boom! and Oxford, too.

A poet ponders pop and popping waistlines.

Bienvenue en France, where president-poets are de rigueur.

Banned American author’s anti-censorship poem becomes the manifesto of British Banned Books Week.

Today’s New York School: fail out, save yourself.

Homage to Mahon’s homage to Goa.

In Santa Barbara, political candidates sing, dance, and versify their ways into office.

In search of the great suicides: Plath, Cobain, Van Gogh and Rothko had “unromantic, uneviable” ends.

Of science and stanzas.

What she thought but did not say—NPR posts poems, semi-interviews Heather McHugh.

Dancing the Sarabande for 15 years: a big anniversary for a small press.

Arabic poetry in Hebrew hopes to heal.

New York poetry library moves into glass house.

Bishop, Heaney, Hughes among most influential writers of past 25 years.

Foulds brings journalist back into the fold: rediscovering a love of poetry.

Ever-imaginative TriQuarterly reimagined, prompting shock and sadness.

From the fishhouse to the ears of poetry lovers.

Bolaño hype: phony baloney?

“You might just tolerate all of this”: newly minted Best American Poets speak up.

Talking syntax and sameness with Jason Whitmarsh.

Skipping reels of rhyme: Dylan taught as poetry.

This poet’s letters are dear.

“I would like to know where they lurk”: Gerstler on hiccups and poetry’s audience.

The long Irish tradition of beer bards.

The linguistic and poetic turns of two Nordic bards.

Fixing our Gorey mistakes.

Another for Jim Carroll.

From the block? Remembering Bronx-based English Irishman Michael Donaghy.

Avot Yeshurun packs stanzas with suitcases.

Across the pond, remembering an African-American poet nearly forgotten here, too.

A wackily wonderful wordsmith passes on.

Francis the Poet chalks up Arizona.

Hirsch introduces another “strongest friend of the soul.”

Weighing the significance of metaphors.

Dodge Fest moves to Newark.

Of lyres and gyres: Yeats’s use of movement.

Shel Silverstein demands: What, you want we should avoid reading these fine works?

Can poets offer the meaning of life? Just click here.

Using the order of poetry to ease his disorder.

Kay Ryan on “benefits and denefits.”

Sotheby’s to auction Byron’s notes on “Turdsworth” and other affairs.

Alice Oswald joins Guardian’s ecopoetry series.

In Iraq War, a Vietnam soldier-poet finds no rhyme nor reason.

Barresi on nostalgia and narcissism.

C. Dale Young collects responses to “Triquarterly dustup.”

Through anthologies, poetry gains in translation.

Archambeau walks into Celan’s salon.

Is there a better workshop model?

His divine comedy: remembering jokester poet Henry Gibson.

True or False: Frederick Seidel.

Plumly savors plum position as Maryland Poet Laureate.

Merini, Hillman, and moments of wonder.

Immortalized in a Whittier poem—and now, a Whittier calf.

The loss of Rojas, author of “Objetos perdidos.”

“Looking for the 800-pound gorilla”: Missouri’s first poet laureate reflects.