What is poetry and what is poetry for? To ask the first question is to ask the second. To answer both questions in light of the western tradition stretching back to Homer, and against much modernist ...
To spend even a short time with these three very different poets is to experience a tiny fraction of their love of words and their finely-tuned sense of mischief. Longley says he surprised himself by ...
The face of radicalism has changed dramatically since its former "dirty, bomb-throwing" image, according to celebrated poet Allen Ginsberg. And last night, Ginsberg, and colleagues Robert Creeley and ...
While the term “Instapoetry” may be unfamiliar to most, I assure you it is more familiar than you think. You’ve likely seen books of it cluttering the shelves of Target, or — as the name suggests — ...
An editing error in the headline inverted the name of the organization Academy of American Poets. The headline has since been updated. Founded in 1934, the Academy of ...
Literary critic Foster (How to Read Literature Like a Professor) explicates the fundamentals of reading and understanding poetry in this accessible guide designed for the lay audience. He addresses ...
In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More ...
It’s not often that a contemporary artist offers a book of poetry alongside a gallery show. But Zachari Logan isn’t your usual artist with his idiosyncratic style that blends a Lars von Trier-level ...
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