Here’s 100 near perfect books of poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish died Saturday of of surgery complications.
Where poetry comes from, according to neuroscience.
25 websites for researchers.
50 websites for writers.
The essential reading list of a socialist langpo.
The poet-farmer who is my near neighbor.
Sylvia Plath as a hip-hop poetess. Jay-Z may have issues with that.
Having sex with someone new (the [...]
Meet the anticommunist antimodernists.
Meet the fake Frank O’Hara.
Meet Ron Silliman’s clone (but don’t laugh).
Meet the new declinists.
Meet Kay Ryan’s travel agenda.
What’s going on at the National Mall in September.
The accountability of the artist.
Poetry tagged.
That’s all for now. Goodbye.
War poet Robert Graves is accused of stealing from his mistress.
Here’s a contest for East Texas poets.
Here’s how to promote your poetry.
Verse changes its format.
Darwish draws a crowd.
Journals that read in the summer.
New online lit mag: Cella’s Round Trip.
William Stafford on revision.
A win-win for poets and editors?
In case you missed it.
Enter the Haiku of the [...]
Found in the margins – what musicians read.
Is Billy bowing out?
Relief from the pain of war.
John Updike on American Art.
Poetry for the joy of God.
Out of the mouths of babes.
$4 per gallon gasoline and a poem on a train.
Debauchery rules.
On the state of writing careers.
A rich bitch a la carte.
Should writers be marketers?
Poetry and dance marry up for a unique performance.
Cheerios to donate childrens books.
The Georgia Review wins.
Love, American style.
Telling stories at 100.
On Luna Park.
My poet can beat up your poet.
How to turn a newspaper into a poem.
Shel Silverstein has a nephew?
Those young’uns have no sense of culture.
Five lessons for poets – from Henry Rollins, no less.
Conjunctions.
All [...]
Ontario Review, R.I.P.
Here’s the strangest interview question that I’ve ever read:
8 – When was the last time you ate a pear?
(Answer) About two weeks ago. The first of the new year.
Rob McLennan knows how to get right to the core.
Poetry comes alive in the hands of Mr. Excitement.
You have until tomorrow to answer Don [...]
Here’s your chance to support freedom of speech.
Get published @ Teenypoet.
Ah, plagiarism.
Reginald Shepherd on New American Poets.
Slamming the Bluz in Charlotte.
Openness, inclusiveness. Is that possible in poetry?
“Outside the Flood Walls” by Edward Byrne.
Slam event: audience participation.
Veterans against the Iraq War.
Making sense of Mamet, the poet and the man.
Simic on time.
Read Ted Kooser’s penultimate column.
Poets and the storms of depression.
A love poem by Frank O’Hara.
Rilke’s “The Swan”.
Doctrine of Signatures.
The National Book Critics Circle recommends ….
A “Bard Double-Dactyled (in Sioux City) and Other Odd Pieces” (including one on Humpty Dumpty).
Lebanese art and poetry that unites.
A poem for Heath Ledger.
Recombinant Poetics.
The Library of Congress Blog is nominated.
Why poets should blog.
Can you [...]
This short story contest had no winner and some entrants are plain pissed off about it. Oh, well. Better 10,000 pissed of losers than one mediocre writer thinking he deserves some kind of credit.
Stumbling Verse, a form for a new millennium.
Bill Moyers asks, “What books should the next president read?” I don’t really care as [...]
Looking for a place to publish your chapbook? Try Shadowbox Press.
Talking Heads’ David Byrne discusses indie music and how artists can control their own destiny. Much of this applies to literary artists as well.
The new Lincoln? God, I hope not.
Billy’s crazy idea about paying people to read his blog. Will it work?
(Source) Dawson performed a [...]