December 2008
Poems by Roddy Lumsden, Todd Boss, Joan Houlihan, Ange Mlinko, Fred D'Aguiar, R.S. Gwynn, Glenn Morazzini, Lilly Poetry Fellows: Nicky Beer, Michael Rutherglen, Roger Reeves, Caki Wilkinson, Alison Stine; prose by Fanny Howe; interview with Seamus Heaney; reviews of Frank Bidart, Ruth Stone, Reginald Gibbons, and Marianne Boruch; exchange between Marjorie Perloff and William Logan
FEATURED POET
God's Secretary
BY R.S. GWYNN
Her e-mail inbox always overflows.
Her outbox doesn’t get much use at all.
She puts on hold the umpteen-billionth call
As music oozes forth to placate those
Who wait, then disconnect.
Poetry Presents
“What use had I for hands”:
A Theatrical Interpretation of Five Poems by Dana Levin
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield
Friday–Sunday, December 12–14
Free admission
CHILDREN’S POET LAUREATE ANNOUNCED
The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the winners of its fifth annual Pegasus Awards. Albert Goldbarth received the Mark Twain Poetry Award, and Mary Ann Hoberman was named the nation’s second Children’s Poet Laureate. Read More >>
360 DEGREES: ART BEYOND BORDERS
The Poetry Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs partner to present international artists, musicians, and poets exploring the role of art around our globe. Read more >>
POETRY OUT LOUD
16-year-old Shawntay Henry of the United States Virgin Islands is the 2008 Poetry Out Loud National Champion and recipient of a $20,000 scholarship prize from the Poetry Foundation. Learn more >>
by Geoffrey O'Brien
How Jack Spicer broke through the pieties of the avant-garde.
In defense of difficult poetry read aloud.
Katy Lederer, hedge fund laureate.
Queen's U honors Seamus Heaney.
More news >>
OTHER FEATURES
The Doubter and the Saint
by Cynthia Haven
At a fateful moment, Czeslaw Miłosz crossed paths with a controversial Polish priest, later martyred in World War II. The little-known encounter and its aftermath illuminate the Nobel laureate’s life and work.
by Cynthia Haven
At a fateful moment, Czeslaw Miłosz crossed paths with a controversial Polish priest, later martyred in World War II. The little-known encounter and its aftermath illuminate the Nobel laureate’s life and work.
"Appearing and Disappearing Like True Poetry"
by Ben Ehrenreich
Roberto Bolaño’s legions of fictional poets and his own heartbroken insurrectionary poems.
by Ben Ehrenreich
Roberto Bolaño’s legions of fictional poets and his own heartbroken insurrectionary poems.
The First Walt Whitman Poem
by David Baker
In the little-known "Time to Come," a rather goth young rhyming Romantic shows the first stirrings of genius.
by David Baker
In the little-known "Time to Come," a rather goth young rhyming Romantic shows the first stirrings of genius.
Visual Poetry Today
by Geof Huth
First appeared in Poetry.
They are not merely poems, but they are certainly poems.
by Geof Huth
First appeared in Poetry.
They are not merely poems, but they are certainly poems.
Anne Sexton's Scrapbook
by Jessica Helfand
A look inside the young poet's life 16 years before she won the Pulitzer Prize.
by Jessica Helfand
A look inside the young poet's life 16 years before she won the Pulitzer Prize.
Fight Club
by Don Bogen
Josephine Miles' overlooked lyric masterpiece "Cage" depicts a feuding couple and the dreamy freedom just outside their door.
by Don Bogen
Josephine Miles' overlooked lyric masterpiece "Cage" depicts a feuding couple and the dreamy freedom just outside their door.
BY CATEGORY
NEWLY ADDED POETS
POEM: Nurture By Maxine W. Kumin
AUDIO: Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: 2 December 1859 By Geoffrey Brock
POETRY OFF THE SHELF
ObamapoeticsElizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry. Listen >>
Essential American Poets
Rodney Jones: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Rodney Jones, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded March 1, 2008, in studio, New York, NY. Listen >>
The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Her Victorian Roots are Showing
The editors pick highlights from an interview with Seamus Heaney and Fanny Howe's notebooks; and listen and comment on poems by Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, and Fred D'Aguiar. Listen >>
“Something stops making sense, won't stay still, can't be grasped, and then you come across the plain shape of it—a simple version that says ‘This is what I mean.’”—Lavinia Greenlaw
Poetry Everywhere
Those Winter Sundays
Animated poem read by Carl Hancock Rux. 01:30
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