Poetry News: 30 Most Recent Entries

01.05.09
Stunning urbanity gives way to stunned suburbanity: the New New York Poets.

Langston Hughes the struggle for civil rights.

Danish poet Inger Christensen is dead.

Pinter in Poet's Corner?

"The world's greatest and most lovable poet."

"I lived like a dog": Stone Mountain man tries to get his business together with poetry.

A look at the letters of Hughes, Lowell and Bishop.

The Seattle Poetry Chain, link by link.

Clayton Eshleman, Ypsi poet.

"Forget your footnotes on the old gentleman; dance around Mary": MLA sex.


12.30.08
"Less sexy, by far": Spicer in the NYT.

Ginsberg and Snyder: "A prickly, mutually respectful and totally asexual relationship."

W.S. Merwin on PBS.

FSG in need of a new "courtly lion" like Giroux.

Seamus Heaney on NPR.

Harold Pinter's later poetry pushed back against tyrants.

Days of wine and poetry in Norwich.

Can nature poetry merge with the world?

Eat, drink and be merry: Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.


12.29.08
"Hoodoo in the sleeping nook", Elizabeth Alexander at the podium.

Katy Lederer in the Indian Express.

Eulogy for a poetry lover in the NYTBR.

New Year's resolutions for Canadian poetry.

A look back at Frost and JFK.

Could Ginsberg and Kissinger naked on TV have ended Vietnam?

The wiseguy archness and savage aplomb of William Logan.

The Twin Cities Examiner's best poetry of 2008.

Dining with Pessoa in Lisbon.


12.23.08
Jack Spicer's open source advocacy and jolly hostility in the LA Times.

Rocker Ryan Adams tries verse, gets panned.


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