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 exquisite corpse way).

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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.

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 Future Contest.

William gets a little dirty.

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?

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 Girls’ School.

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 Wentworth’s question.

Whatever happened to American poetry?

More reasons to download the World Class Poetry Toolbar.

Everything you ever wanted to know about poetry + John Ashbery.

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.

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 write 30 poems in 30 days?

The wisest words ever written:

So the message of this post (I really should try to have a message, shouldn’t I?) is that you shouldn’t get caught up in wondering what’s going to happen to your poetry after you write it; you should just write it.

Stumbling Verse, a form for a new millennium.

Bill Moyers asks, “What books should the next president read?” I don’t really care as long as he reads more than the summaries of news stories presented to him by his press corps and the Sunday comics. I’d like him to have more than a fifth grade reading apprehension level.

VQR solves for the X factor. But if your submission is one of those that is automatically deleted then you’d be on the reverse side of this equation. That 4.6% wouldn’t mean a thing to you except that your submission would be included in it. Honestly, I’d have thought that figure would be higher.

When will the children’s fable be considered serious literature?

Street poetry is a “major art” and therapy for the homeless.

Is it erotic to have two vaginas?

The Princess of Black Poetry celebrates black history.

Asking what the poem wants. I just always assume my poems want to make love. You know want it, Baby! You know you want it!

Write a poem today. Then revise it tomorrow.

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 poem about New Orleans, calling it “the vagina of America.”

Question: Is the poem the vagina, or is it New Orleans? I’d like to see it. The poem, I mean.

When I read this I thought gay poetry was illegal in the UK. It turns out that blasphemy is the culprit.

Soldier who fought in Afghanistan publishes a book of poems.

Today’s poem is by Li-Young Lee.

World War II veteran/poet kicks Caligula in the nuts while defending the Constitution.

Disclaimer: This is a poetry blog, not a political one. Although it’s hard to separate the two. When discussing politics on this blog, it is not intended to endorse a particular political point of view or candidate. It is simply to react to what someone else has done or said or to comment on some aspect of poetics. If I were to express a political point of view outside of the realm of poetry it would likely be from a libertarian POV. But since this is not a political blog, I’ll have to claim the Fifth. (of whiskey)