- — WALT WHITMAN. March 28, 1892, Wednesday (obit.) —
- — You betcha! by William Logan —
- — Alice Fogel joins us from her home in Acworth, New Hampshire. —
- — Israeli scientists have modified a potent antibiotic that may allow it to treat cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases caused by “stop mutations”. —
- — Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll and an MP3 —
- — Diane Lockward on Barbara Crooker’s RADIANCE —
- — 12 or 20 questions: with John Kinsella —
- — Thrive as a Starving Writer–Lessons from the Experts —
- — So goes the legend of Tsangyang Gyamtso, one of the most popular historical figures among Tibetans and the most colorful of the long line of Dalai Lamas. His poetry is among the most iconic in Tibetan literature. —
- — How Dudley Randall used poetry to express the truth elegantly —
- — Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language? —
- — Nonprofit group rallies rural artists —
- — It was Millay and her Dutch husband, Eugen Jan Boissevain, who had the home renovated from the Italiante to the Dutch Colonial style in the 1920s. During their short stint in the home, they added the casement windows, skylight and Dutch stepped gable that passersby see today. —
- — The Poetry Show: Eva Salzman and Amy Wack’s anthology Women’s Work [mp3] —
- — Joe Milford Hosts William S. Burroughs [mp3] —
- — If you want to participate, you need do nothing more than write up that one poem a day during the month of April. —
- — Lot #18: Elvis Presley Handwritten and Initialed Poem —
- — This month’s classic poem narrates an adulterous nighttime adventure that doesn’t work out as planned. —
- — Louise Glück’s sixth pick as judge of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a debut both whimsical and dark —
- — Now, from Philadelphia comes a modern day Mallarmé in the post-avant emissions of Frank Sherlock who is “telling the future from memory.” —
- — An academic claims to have discovered six previously unrecognised works by William Shakespeare. —
- — It was first reported in July that the increasingly bookish James Franco would star in a biopic of acclaimed poet Allen Ginsberg and now we’ve got our first look at the actor as a pre-bald and fat Ginsberg —
- — As the generational divide between metrical poetic tradition and free verse tradition has widened, the task of hearing free verse in the right brain has grown more daunting. —
- — Perhaps there are no tired words or tired phrases, only tired poets, poets who don’t have the energy to pinch a cliché’s nose and breathe some life into it, who don’t have the breath to give in the first place, the courage to confront an apparent dead-end and stride into it. —
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