http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ en-us Poetry Foundation 2008-08-21T16:38:05-05:00 Poetry Foundation A daily digest from the Poetry Foundation's new Web site, which publishes feature articles on poets and poetry, news about the poetry publishing, reviews of poetry readings, and reading guides to poems from its comprehensive archive of more than 3,000 poems. hourly 1 Stephen Burt tries to find modern poems that can stand up to the legacy of Pindar's odes.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182143 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182143 2008-08-21T16:38:05-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182089 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182089 2008-08-14T14:14:38-05:00 Carla Blumenkranz takes a look at two recent poet-memoirs. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182080 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182080 2008-08-13T17:03:10-05:00 Rachel Aviv stacks up Mao's writing against his revolutionary goals.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182061 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182061 2008-08-06T14:34:21-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181737 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181737 2008-07-01T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181739 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181739 2008-07-01T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181740 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181740 2008-07-01T00:00:00-05:00 Steve Almond tries to be a poet for a year.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182028 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=182028 2008-07-17T15:22:11-05:00 Ange Mlinko dishes on what broke them apart.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181959 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181959 2008-07-09T23:47:49-05:00 Gary Rudoren lets us know how it's done!]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181684 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181684 2008-07-03T10:47:59-05:00 Playboy, Shel Silverstein's first children's book, The Giving Tree, found early success with ministers and Sunday school teachers. Jesse Nathan takes a look at how Shel became Shel.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181785 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181785 2008-06-18T17:36:06-05:00 Peter O'Leary digs deep into the Poetry magazine archive to uncover the origins of the Objectivist movement.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181672 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181672 2008-06-12T13:10:45-05:00 Stephen Burt discusses the work of A.R. Ammons. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181544 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181544 2008-06-04T12:42:01-05:00 Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, Randall Maggs pokes underneath that filleted skin to draw a loosely biographical portrait of the hockey legend. R. Emmet Sweeney interviews Maggs about his latest book.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181666 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181666 2008-05-30T11:08:08-05:00 Gary Snyder talks to Alan Williamson about koan study in Rinzai Zen, about his travels in India and Japan, and about translating East Asian poetry.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181667 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181667 2008-05-28T14:09:05-05:00 Michael Atkinson reviews the work of Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181664 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181664 2008-05-23T12:55:34-05:00 Bruce Black about being a children's poet and becoming the Children's Laureate of Britain.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181660 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181660 2008-05-19T14:53:26-05:00 Levi Stahl looks under the hood of the work of George Oppen, Campbell McGrath, and Gabriel Gudding.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181655 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181655 2008-05-14T12:03:53-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181504 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181504 2008-04-24T15:49:07-05:00 Jordan Davis discusses the poetics of Rudy Burckhardt's photography and film.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181573 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181573 2008-05-07T14:07:30-05:00 Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan spar over books by Alice Oswald and Daniel Anderson.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181503 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181503 2008-04-24T15:50:36-05:00 Jana Prikryl traces Henry Parland's path from bullied schoolboy to literary prodigy to forgotten avant-garde poet.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181477 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181477 2008-04-23T16:22:28-05:00 Izzy Ginspan investigates.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181409 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181409 2008-04-17T14:33:53-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181408 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181408 2008-04-16T16:13:28-05:00 Jason McBride about her translation technique.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181391 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181391 2008-04-09T15:56:20-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181387 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181387 2008-04-02T16:43:05-05:00 Travis Nichols reflects on the work of American Zen poet Philip Whalen.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180933 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180933 2008-03-25T17:36:21-05:00 Paul La Farge reviews the recent translations of oddity texts, Novels in Three Lines, by Felix Feneon, and Stèles, by Victor Sagalen.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181289 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181289 2008-03-19T16:33:48-05:00 Rachel Aviv discusses the poet's complicated relationship to her craft and the literary world.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181241 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181241 2008-03-12T15:38:25-05:00 Matthea Harvey's latest book, Modern Life, explores the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment. Jeannine Hall Gailey interviews Harvey about the post-apocalyptic landscapes, human-robot hybrids, and echoes of Japanese anime in her book.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181239 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181239 2008-03-05T13:14:50-05:00 Alexander Provon takes a look at her attempt to reconcile poetry and platform politics.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181229 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181229 2008-02-27T15:55:45-05:00 Ed Herrmann and is narrated by Richard Steele.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181200 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181200 2008-02-22T12:55:35-05:00 Beowulf to the present. This time around, R. Kikuo Johnson lends his talents to a poem by A.E. Stallings.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181161 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181161 2008-02-15T07:54:04-05:00 My Nose and Me. Jessica Winter reports on the winner of the Poetry Foundation's first annual Verse Drama Prize. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181121 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181121 2008-01-29T14:49:50-05:00 Ben Ehrenreich, "was with death." Ehrenreich discusses the life and work of poet Frank Stanford and the circumstances that shroud his birth and death in mystery.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181083 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=181083 2008-01-18T12:54:09-05:00 David Trinidad talks with Richard Siken about his fascination with the world of Barbie and the process of creating a collection of his very own.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180916 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180916 2008-01-09T09:50:48-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180587 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180587 2007-12-21T13:55:12-05:00 Troy Jollimore comments on the pleasures of reading Robert Hass's latest book of essays on poetry.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180530 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180530 2007-12-19T12:17:22-05:00 John Freeman interviews Robert Hass about Time and Materials, winner of the National Book Award, and about his experiences as a writer, reader, and teacher of poetry.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180531 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180531 2007-12-19T12:17:02-05:00 Geoff Dyer examines the slow crawl of artistic influence from Balzac to Rodin to Rilke and ponders the extent to which one art form can absorb and harness the possibilities inherent in another.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180435 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180435 2007-12-05T15:33:18-05:00 Samantha Hunt interviews Heather McHugh about the work of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius and the poetry inscribed in his compendium of illustrations of the human body. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180416 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180416 2007-12-04T09:26:18-05:00 Stephen Burt reads into this exhausted poem.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180406 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180406 2007-11-29T14:03:52-05:00 The Rape of the Lock. Alice Boone interviews novelist Sophie Gee about Pope, the affair that inspired the poem, and her novel, The Scandal of the Season.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180365 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180365 2007-11-28T16:26:17-05:00 Rachel Aviv reports.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180239 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180239 2007-11-20T14:51:18-05:00 Deborah Haar Clark reports on the Fibbing phenomenon.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180219 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180219 2007-11-20T14:23:48-05:00 Jeremy Richards describes the 2007 National Poetry Slam Finals and the poets who unleash 'tsunamis from their back pockets'.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180218 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180218 2007-11-20T13:51:20-05:00 Rachel Aviv profiles this reluctant member of the Berkeley Renaissance.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=179380 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=179380 2007-11-19T12:50:33-05:00 Maria Hummel reports on guidelines developed by the creative writing department at Virginia Tech to screen student work for potential warning signs.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180145 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180145 2007-11-15T15:17:55-05:00 Robin Ekiss questions the poet about 'the act of imagining' needed to grasp her poetic subjects.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180235 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180235 2007-11-12T15:29:16-05:00 Phil Metres highlights poems that confront what Wallace Stevens once termed "the pressures of reality."]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180213 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180213 2007-11-05T15:27:37-05:00 Jessica Winter looks at new collections by Martha Collins, Eliza Griswold, James Hoch, and C.D. Wright to see if poetry can speak for victims left without a voice. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180211 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180211 2007-11-05T15:24:35-05:00 John Felstiner on how eight poets have evoked and invoked the natural world.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180158 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180158 2007-11-05T11:59:32-05:00 W.S. Merwin showcases poems that have successfully reckoned with a feeling that is beyond reckoning.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180159 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180159 2007-10-31T13:26:58-05:00 Levi Stahl takes a look at poetry about baseball, finding a few poets who throw strikes and a few who don't.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180149 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180149 2007-10-24T10:06:24-05:00 can they read? Paisley Rekdal puts herself on a strict reading regimen to find out--and lives to tell about it.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180140 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180140 2007-10-17T13:06:53-05:00 Kwame Dawes examines the poem and what it reveals about the nature of bigotry.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180107 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180107 2007-10-08T16:34:02-05:00 Jack Prelutsky shares his delight in the poet's inventive verse.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180082 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180082 2007-10-01T16:18:21-05:00 Jeremy Richards talks with Ishle Yi Park and Bob Holman about slam, and how they manage to straddle both sides of the page / stage divide.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180098 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180098 2007-09-27T16:16:21-05:00 Brian Reed puts on his asbestos gloves to take a look.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180083 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180083 2007-09-24T16:47:25-05:00 Jessica Allen gives us a front row look at the laughs and strangeness.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180045 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180045 2007-09-21T11:52:36-05:00 Beowulf to the present. This time around, Paul Hornschemeier lends his talents to a poem by Ted Kooser.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180049 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180049 2007-09-19T17:04:25-05:00 Nathaniel Fick thought it was time to go back. On his way to teach troops in Afghanistan, he looks at recent war-themed collections of poetry and sees how they stack up. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180043 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180043 2007-09-11T17:42:06-05:00 Jessica Winter helps untangle the web.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180032 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=180032 2007-08-31T18:21:48-05:00 Maria Hummel takes a closer look at this poem with "an original point of view."]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=179991 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=179991 2007-08-27T17:20:28-05:00 Ian Daly explains.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179985 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179985 2007-08-25T08:51:10-05:00 Troy Jollimore looks at Lowell's "Skunk Hour."]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179983 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179983 2007-08-16T16:57:29-05:00 Kary Wayson guides us along its course of purification.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179981 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179981 2007-08-13T17:27:42-05:00 Mary Jo Bang examines May Swenson's "Bleeding."]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179979 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179979 2007-08-13T17:27:31-05:00 Alexander Provan investigates.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179966 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179966 2007-08-01T16:38:17-05:00 Raphael Rubinstein looks at Jacques Lipchitz's portrait of Gertrude Stein and the portrait she penned of him in response.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179961 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179961 2007-07-25T19:14:36-05:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179940 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179940 2007-07-20T15:08:52-05:00 Rachel Aviv investigates.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179906 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179906 2007-07-17T12:47:10-05:00 Beowulf to the present. This time around, Ron RegŽ, Jr. lends his talents to a poem by Kenneth Patchen.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179896 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179896 2007-07-09T15:43:38-05:00 Stephen Burt examines Pope's ÒEpistle to Dr. ArbuthnotÓ and finds the roots of modern hip-hop rivalries. ]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179880 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179880 2007-07-02T17:00:02-05:00 Richard Siken interviews Thylias Moss about her collection of reflections, shadows, and forks. The fourth in an occasional series.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179856 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179856 2007-06-25T17:41:18-05:00 Mary Kinzie takes a closer look at Bogan's influences, and at Bogan's moment of artistic--and personal--crisis.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179738 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179738 2007-06-18T13:43:11-05:00 Rachel Aviv fills us in on the details.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179743 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179743 2007-06-15T16:41:51-05:00 Jack Prelutsky, the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, discusses the work, writing habits, and fashion preferences of his friend, children's novelist, and poet Nikki Grimes, sharing a few of her newest, unpublished poems along the way.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179705 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179705 2007-06-13T15:30:04-05:00 kidlitosphere enthusiastically offer up their favorite poems for kids. Susan Thomsen takes a tour through this billowing online community.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179694 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179694 2007-06-13T14:31:00-05:00 Jeremy Richards talks with Susan Somers-Willett about slam, and how she manages to straddle both sides of the page / stage divide.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179688 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179688 2007-06-07T17:56:34-05:00 David Browne navigates the sometimes rough seas.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179685 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179685 2007-05-29T17:43:47-05:00 Beowulf to the present. This time around, Jeffrey Brown lends his talents to a poem by Russell Edson.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179642 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179642 2007-05-21T10:34:37-05:00 James Marcus reports.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179641 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179641 2007-05-18T16:56:36-05:00 Jessica Winter talks to the filmmaker about the influence of the poet in his work.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179637 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179637 2007-05-11T10:58:27-05:00 Travis Nichols investigates.]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179636 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=179636 2007-05-10T14:58:09-05:00