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Robert Lowell Can one poem make a city poetic?  Mark Feeney mulls it over in the Boston Globe: Boston has never been an especially poetical place, as New York can be...

The Washington Post takes a look at two centuries toll on the Wordsworthian landscapes: This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the romantic poet William Wordsworth's...

Serge Schmemann remembers the Russian poet in the New York Times: By the time I met the poet Andrei Voznesensky in the early 1980’s, he was in that limbo in...

Who: Master Sergeant Brandon Short, Specialist Arvinette Brooks What: Poetry Night at the Falcon When: Every other Tuesday Where: Baghdad, Iraq “Open Door” features audio, video, and other online media to document...

Stan Apps, in the current issue of ACTION YES, solves contemporary poetry's problem: If poetry had some cartoon animals to speak for it and tell people what to do (such as...

In addition to the work being done at Poets for Living Waters, Facebook tells us that a number of poets are making arrangements to travel down to the Gulf Coast...

On the occasion of this year's Hay Festival in the UK, the Guardian asks what makes poetry, poetry? The first [event to ask the question] was last night's annual Housman lecture...

The New York Review of Books reprints W.H. Auden's essay on the poetry of recently departed Andrei Voznesensky: As a fellow maker, I am struck first and foremost by [Voznesensky's] craftsmanship....

The Vulture blog over at New York Magazine had themselves a contest in honor of singer/exhibitionist Erykah Badu's tour stop at the Roseland Ballroom this weekend. We won't...

A parody from Seth Weitberg on the internet tendency: Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham, except for your friend Tricky Pete who will...