01.26.10: THE CHISEL
How poetry can break open pop criticism.

01.19.10: NICHOLSON BAKER TALKS POETRY
Can a novel capture contemporary poetry’s (dour, curmudgeonly) zeitgeist?

01.12.10: MISS BISHOP SAYS SO
Remembering Elizabeth Bishop.

01.05.10: RAYMOND DANOWSKI HAS YOUR CHAPBOOK
Amassing the world’s largest collection of 20th-century poetry was easy. Finding a home for it was a different story.

12.29.09: ALL AROUND THE WORLD THE SAME SONG
How globe-trotting poetries may not beat scrawls in a cave.

12.15.09: AS IF NATURE TALKED BACK TO ME
A Notebook.

12.08.09: IN SEARCH OF THE AUDEN MARTINI
How to make a cocktail beautiful, humanizing, and good.

12.01.09: SEISM AND SCHISM
A review of Colosseum by Katie Ford.

11.24.09: BEAT AMERICA
What did we learn from Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg?

11.17.09: THE LINEBACKER AND THE DERVISH
Lowell's and Bishop's collected letters.

11.10.09: TO LET YOU PASS
Remembering Craig Arnold.

11.03.09: POETRY, DAILY
Brenda Starr makes way for Rumi, Neruda, and Merwin.

10.27.09: PARA RUMBIAR
Robert Creeley in the outfield.

10.20.09: AN ALBINO HERRING
Does Billy Collins's latest poetry collection leave readers laughing or frowning?

10.13.09: SAGA AND CIRCUS
Lyn Hejinian’s latest poetry collection sets two different moods.

10.06.09: METAPHYSICAL COMFORTS
Jennifer Moxley’s new book of poems, Clampdown, confronts the domestic with a disclosing eye.

09.29.09: UNPAVED TERRAIN
Poet Lucia Perillo talks about her poetry, her disability, and her changing relationship with nature.

09.22.09: REFINING FORM
William Logan reviews Thom Gunn’s Selected Poems.

09.15.09: ARTFUL ARTLESSNESS
John Koethe on Henri Cole’s Blackbird and Wolf, winner of the 2009 Lenore Marshall Prize.

09.08.09: DEADPAN DISASTERS
William Logan reviews Arda Collins’s debut poetry collection It Is Daylight, winner of the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.

09.01.09: SURPASSING THE SELF THROUGH THE SELF
A close reading of Louise Bogan’s early poem, “A Tale.”

08.25.09: A NAMELESS VOCATION
In her memoir The Winter Sun, poet Fanny Howe explores the possibilities and impossibilities of a writer’s calling. 

08.11.09: BEYOND THE CULT OF YOUTH
An interview with Brian Culhane, winner of the 2007 Emily Dickinson First Book Award for a poet over the age of 50.

08.04.09: AND WOW HE LIVED AS WOW HE DIED
The hard-boiled, Great Depression-era poetry of Kenneth Fearing.

07.28.09: UNLOCKING THE CITY
Anne Winters acts as a poet-detective in her collection, The Key to the City.

07.21.09: SING FOR THE TAXMAN
The unlikely intersection of poetry and internal revenue.

07.14.09: RAISING HIS VOICE
The early sparks of the celebrated poetry of Juan Felipe Herrera.

07.07.09: INTO THE WILD
The collective voice of children and beasts in Bhanu Kapil’s poetry.

06.30.09: GOING NEGATIVE
Why poetry reviews should be more skeptical.

06.23.09: ELEMENTAL MEDICINE
In his debut collection, poet Fady Joudah combines rich imagery with his experiences working for Doctors Without Borders.

06.16.09: IN PURSUIT OF AN ECHO
Todd Boss’s new poetry collection depends on rhythmic invention.

06.09.09: THE MASTERY OF THE THING
A rereading of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s great poem, “The Windhover.”

06.02.09: THE ORIGINAL CONFESSIONAL (ALMOST) TELLS ALL
An interview with W.D. Snodgrass.

05.26.09: WHO NEEDS TO HEAR A QUAGGA’S VOICE?
Poet Sarah Lindsay tells us what we didn’t know we were missing.

05.19.09: A MIND IN ACTION
Frank Bidart’s poetry embodies its thought process.

05.12.09: REBUILDING ARCHETYPES
Eavan Boland reinvented Irish poetry to make room for female poets.

05.05.09: BOUNCE AND REBOUND
The whip-crack language and zig-zag reality of a young poet from Belarus.

04.28.09: THE KINGDOM OF ORDINARY TIME
Marie Howe’s conversational and intimate poems address the daily and the divine.

04.21.09: THE ART OF DEFLECTION
Marianne Boruch’s newest poetry collection defers the usual allurements.

04.14.09: AN AROMA OF MEANING
A review of Irish poet Medbh McGuckian’s disjointed and dreamy new book of poems.

04.07.09: CASUALTY
A close reading of Seamus Heaney’s celebrated elegy.

03.31.09: CHOICE WORDS
Poet Peter Cole carefully navigates the abstract and timeless.

03.24.09: INTELLIGENCE OPERATION
A review of Irish poet Ciaran Carson's captivating and witty new collection.

03.17.09: ACTIVE INGREDIENT
For British poet Simon Armitage, poetry is necessary for language, not vice versa.

03.10.09: A POEM A DAY
How a good idea turned into a great website—Poetry Daily.

03.03.09: AWASH IN DRAMATIC IRONY
How former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich misread Tennnyson.

02.24.09: THE FIFTY MINUTE MERMAID
Paul Muldoon's translation of Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's latest collection.

02.17.09: MEMORY HAS NO REAL ESTATE
German poet Durs Grünbein offers candid and chilling versions of history.

02.10.09: FINDING AGAIN THE WORLD
A recollection of poet Howard Nemerov.

02.03.09: GIRLS INTERRUPTED
Two new memoirs by poets Lavinia Greenlaw and Sarah Manguso.

01.27.09: A PORTRAIT OF HAYDEN CARRUTH
W.S. Di Piero reminisces.

01.20.09: CRAFT VERSUS CONSCIENCE
The rift of war between poets Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.

01.13.09: LIFE STUDIES
After early success, Robert Lowell strove for a new style—and revolutionized American letters.

01.06.09: THESE WALLS WILL HAVE TO GO
Three newly discovered poems by Langston Hughes have their first known publication in the January 2009 issue of Poetry magazine.

12.30.08: A LONG ENGAGEMENT
A close look at Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Moose" shows why it took her twenty years to write it.

12.23.08: POETS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA
Poet Elizabeth Alexander, who will read a poem at the 2009 Inauguration, discusses President-elect Barack Obama and his relationship with language.

12.16.08: MICHAEL ROSEN
An interview with the Children's Laureate of Britain.

12.09.08: DISMAL ROCK
A review of Davis McCombs's recent poetry collection.

12.02.08: THE NURSE OF ENCHANTMENT
Even the avant-garde couldn't resist Helen Adam's ballads.

11.25.08: THE POEM AS TESTAMENT
Sarah Hannah's second, and final, poetry collection.

11.18.08: A CONVERSATION WITH KEATS
Poet Stanley Plumly's book on the legendary John Keats transcends biography.

11.11.08: OUT OF THIS WORLD
Poet Albert Goldbarth discusses his 1950s space paraphernalia collection.

11.03.08: THE OUTSIDER ARTIST
New U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan.

10.28.08: THE BEE'S KNEES
The delightful verse of new Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman has been a family favorite for decades.

10.21.08: MEET THE BEETLES
Linda Pastan's poem "The Deathwatch Beetle" echoes Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."

10.14.08: CRAZY LOVE
The reverent, and irreverent, poetry of Zen priest Philip Whalen.

10.07.08: AT HOME WITH POEMS
Tips for homeschoolers, and all parents, on inspiring families with verse.

09.30.08: WHERE THE SIDEWALK BEGINS
With his first book Don't Bump the Glump, Shel Silverstein made the leap from Playboy cartoonist to children's author.

09.23.08: THE IMPETUOUS POET
Richard Kenney's first poetry collection in fifteen years is worth the wait.

09.16.08: HUMANIZING ROBOTS—AND VICE VERSA
Matthea Harvey discusses the futuristic imagery of her latest poetry collection.

09.09.08: THE PLAY OF OPPOSITES
A reissued translation of late T'ang dynasty poetry unites ancient form and raw emotion.

09.02.08: UNLOVABLE OBJECTS
Poet Cate Marvin relentlessly explores passion's pitfalls.

08.26.08: THE PHRASEOLOGY OF OLD BONES
Throughout his career, poet A.R. Ammons's diction ranged from slangy to elegant.

08.19.08: ROBERT HASS IN TEL AVIV
The former US poet laureate guest lectures on postmodern poetry and nature.

08.12.08: A SIGNAL THROUGH THE FLAMES
Lawrence Ferlinghetti calls on poets to save the world.

08.05.08: BEARING FALSE WITNESS
Were William Stafford's early poems better left unpublished?

07.30.08: FAINT HOPE, EARNED HONESTLY
Sandra McPherson offers the pleasures of no-nonsense, all-substance poetry.

07.22.08: THE HEFT OF WORDS
Poet Louis Zukofsky thrived on a lush mix of sound and sense.

07.15.08: NO DEAD-ENDS
Fanny Howe's poetry is consciousness without judgment; her objective is "not to conclude, but to discover."

07.08.08: THE GREEN MAN IN CAMELOT
A review of Simon Armitage's new translation of the larger--and stranger--than-life Middle English poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

07.01.08: TO SEE THE UNIVERSE IN A GRAIN OF SAND
In the smallest of landscapes, Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie finds the larger story.

06.24.08: DESIRE TO BURN
Did his misreading of a poem contribute to Kurt Cobain's demise?

06.17.08: PUT ON THAT PARTY-CRASHING DRESS
Laura Kasischke's latest poetry collection, Lilies Without, offers unsettling charms.

06.10.08: ARMED WITH VERSE
With recent collections of war poetry in his bag, an ex-soldier returns to Afghanistan.

06.03.08: FABLES AND FOIBLES
Poets Tess Gallagher and Robin Robertson dive headfirst into mythic flaws, contemporary and classical.

05.27.08: SERIOUSLY PLAYFUL
Making sense of the crazy eloquence in John Ashbery's Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems.

05.20.08: OVER THE MOON
The women in Colleen McElroy's poetry bravely weather extremes of loss and love.

05.13.08: THE WAR OF ART
A new edition of Simone Weil's and Rachel Bespaloff's essays on the ethics of the Iliad.

05.06.08: CLOSE--BUT NOT TOO CLOSE--OBSERVATION
Two recent collections of poetry dwell in the revealing details.

04.29.08: THEY TELL THE TRUTH, BUT TELL IT SLANT
Poets Anne Carson and Charles Wright revise and refresh the usual ways of seeing the world.

04.22.08: TRANSLATING POETRY INTO POETRY
C. K. Williams on becoming a poet, and how he creates English versions of ancient Greek dramas—without knowing any Greek.

04.15.08: THRILLS AND CHILLS AND HOME MOVIES
Poets Galway Kinnell and David Wojahn create American myths as often as they debunk them.

04.08.08: NEVER FAR FROM A BREAKDOWN
Djuna Barnes' Collected Poems: With Notes Towards the Memoir displays her fascinating and furious mind at work.

04.01.08: A PSALM? HOW SO?
"The tension between the attempt to mean and the routine failure to entirely mean": the limits of human language and worship in George Oppen's "Psalm."

03.25.08: NATURE POEMS IN A POST-NATURAL AGE
Poet Gary Snyder thinks the landscape of contemporary poetry should include wildflowers . . . and highway fast food joints.

03.18.08: BIG TALK AND SUNG STORIES
Two poetry reviews: Jay Hopler's volatile debut collection and thirty years' worth of Ellen Bryan Voigt's narrative lyricism.

03.11.08: HERBERT SUCKS. DONNE IS A PIMP.
Why high school students make great poetry critics.

03.04.08: WRITING ON THE WALL
Scholars and poets around the world consider dissident poet Huang Xiang the Whitman of China, but his work is still banned there.

02.26.08: NO PERSONAL HISTORY HERE
Eleanor Wilner "gets out of the way" of her poetry.

02.19.08: JOHN DONNE IS HOT
"The Sun Rising" is so romantic it will burn your eyes.

02.12.08: BARNES ON FIRE
Hilarious and pious, Dick Barnes is essential to poetry's future.

02.05.08: DEPTH AND WARMTH
Jack Gilbert thinks poets should be greedy for "what's inside them."

01.29.08: THE INNER LIFE AND THE INNER CITY
The kaleidoscopic poetry of Kay Ryan and Major Jackson.

01.22.08: THE POET OF GREEN BANANAS AND BACALAO
How a plate of food reminds Victor Hernández Cruz of history.

01.15.08: THE POET AND THE ROCK BAND
John Berryman's ghost makes cameo appearances on the Hold Steady's new album.

01.08.08: THE ESSENTIAL GWENDOLYN BROOKS: ESSENTIAL ENOUGH?
The new volume of Brooks's poetry may be too slim.

12.27.07: GHOSTS, SEX, AND PHYSICS
Two recent poetry collections offer a range of pleasures.

12.21.07: THE GARDEN OF MEMORY
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Lisel Mueller's gentle, steady voice was shaped by a harsh history.

12.18.07: BEHIND THE LINES
Two recent poetry collections offer a range of pleasures.

12.04.07: IN PRAISE OF RARENESS
The editor of Poetry magazine tackles the virtues of verse.

11.27.07: HE'S OUR SHAKESPEARE
So why is America ambivalent about Whitman?

11.20.07: MOXIE AND DREAMS
Two recent poetry collections–one playful, one pleasurably eerie–to get us through the 21st century.

11.13.07: PLATH AT 75
The legacy of the poet who died at 30.

11.06.07: WAY OUT OF AFRICA
Nigerian poet and novelist Chris Abani, once a political prisoner, finds peace and inspiration in L.A.