Wanted: Political Poetry Wanted: Political Poetry
Are you worried about the election? Do you write haiku? People for the American Way and The Nation invite your entries the McPalin Haiku Hysteria competition.
Oct 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Erica Landau
All Aboard All Aboard
Tumbled down an incline at Bash Bish Broke many things; it was still spring
Sep 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bernadette Mayer
Back Talk: Honor Moore Back Talk: Honor Moore
Poet Honor Moore talks about her family's response to her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter.
Jun 11, 2008 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood
Personal Histories Personal Histories
New collections by Adam Zagajewski and Julia Hartwig suggest that postwar Polish verse can't be reduced to "poetry of witness."
Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff
Loss Lieder Loss Lieder
It's National Poetry Month, and that means cooked meat.
Apr 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Israel Is Israel Is
Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole
A Nurse of Enchantment A Nurse of Enchantment
Helen Adam wrote to raise gooseflesh. A new collection of her work takes her on her own terms.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
One Sun Roaring One Sun Roaring
The Zen reflections in Philip Whalen's poetry have been collected in one beautiful book.
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
Un Lio Bestial Un Lio Bestial
In his poetry Roberto Bolaño gave himself over to the subversive, to antiheroes, ballad and saga.
Mar 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Forrest Gander
A Test of Poetry A Test of Poetry
More than any other American poet, George Oppen begs us to consider the elusive relationship between aesthetic and political responsibilities.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach