Robert Pinsky’s POEMJAZZ
I’ll admit I’m a bit of a lazy poetry reader. When I read novels I’m ok with a 1200-page epic (Game of Thrones!) now and again, but when it comes to poetry, I want brevity! (Admit it; so do you.) If a poem sprawls onto a 2nd page, ok– fine. If it runs more than 4...
Adrienne Rich: Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
I remember, as if it were yesterday, reading "Diving into the Wreck" for the first time. Just as vividly, I recall the first time I heard a reading of "What Kind of Times Are These." Today I learned that Adrienne Rich passed away.
Poet Mark Strand Interviewed on Here & Now
Mark Strand, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and describer of all things chilly or absent, appeared yesterday on NPR's Here & Now to discuss his latest collection Almost Invisible. Coincidentally or not...
The Waste Land: The iPad App
We all know that April is the cruelest month. It's also National Poetry Month (at least for the US and Canada; the UK has to wait until October). So, that gives you a couple weeks yet to prepare...
May I suggest you get into the spirit of things with an iPad app?
Nicelle Davis and The Living Poetry Project
Poetry isn’t always found in books or being slammed from a stage. Poet and teacher Nicelle Davis is trying to underscore that fact. As agent provocateur she has embarked on The Living Poetry Project.
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
After much controversy over the prize's new hedge-fund sugardaddy (where 2 nominated poets pulled out of the running), someone has finally won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Scottish poet John Burnside took home the prize and £15,000 for his collection Black Cat Bone.
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
Noteworthy occurrences in the wide world of poetry-- for the week ending January 14th, 2012.
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
Noteworthy occurrences in the wide world of poetry- for the week ending January 7th, 2012. Well, I skipped a week. Hell, it was the holidays. But it's a new year now...
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
Noteworthy occurrences in the wide world of poetry-- for the week ending December 24, 2011, including year-end lists, a 150 year old mystery solved, and the Muscles from Brussels.
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
Noteworthy occurrences in the wide world of poetry- for the week ending December 17th, 2011.
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
Noteworthy occurrences in the wide world of poetry, for the week ending December 10th, 2011.
The week tied up with a nice, neat bow!
The Weekly Paraphrase: 7 Days of Poetry News in Under 60 Seconds
Noteworthy occurrences in the wide world of poetry for the week ending December 3rd, 2011. First, Chilean poet Nicanor Parra wins Spain's Cervantes Prize (considered the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor).
Nikky Finney’s Head Off & Split wins National Book Award
Nikky Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split, was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry. Today she was interviewed by Neal Conan for NPR’s Talk of the Nation. They discuss her early influences, when she first knew she was a “poet,” and what’s changed for her since winning the award.
Tomas Tranströmer Awarded 2011′s Nobel Prize in Literature
Swedish poet and translator Tomas Tranströmer (b. 1931), one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the past 50 years, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many of his poems evoke the long dark of winter, the echoes of the natural world in urban life, and the ecstatic moments that punctuate daily routine. Check...
