Poetry Off the Shelf

“I knew all along you were mine”

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600

Love poems from the archive for Valentine's Day.

Blood in the Grass

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600

The ABCs of Tom Disch, master of comic verse.

A Wild Solitude Revealed

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600

Lisa Jarnot discusses the poetry of Robert Duncan.

Drinking in Poetry

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Jeff Gordinier and Rosie Schaap share their favorite boozy poems in time for the New Year's holiday.

"Inscribe the poem on yourself"

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Dan Beachy-Quick on the pleasures of memorization.

No Place for the Little Lyric

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Should Adrienne Rich be the poet laureate of the Occupy movement?

The Virus Mutant in His Veins

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Poet Edgar Bowers on Louis Pasteur.

Naming It

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Selections from the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry.

The Waste Land: The App

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0600

T.S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece meets modern technology.

All That Poetry

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Kenneth Patchen's poems have been set to music by The Claudia Quintet.

Much Casual Death

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Christopher Ricks discusses Anthony Hecht's harrowing and unforgettable poem "More Light! More Light!"

The Mutilated World

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Poems that captured the mood of the moment in the wake of 9/11.

About a Boy

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0600

The shape things take to Atsuro Riley.

Lines for Hard Times

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Philip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.

Sex, Drugs, and Poetry

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Cedar Sigo's expensive magic.

What You Come Here For

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Fred Moten's poem "the salve trade" swims in the waters of literary theory.

The Poetry Garage

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0600

A thing of wonder and of beauty

Shadow of a Doubt

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Thomas Hardy refuses to see a ghost that's not there.

Three Ways of Looking at a Rose

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0600

H.D., Jean Valentine, and Galway Kinnell on the queen of all poetic clichés.

The New Johnny Appleseed of Children’s Poetry

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Children's lit scholar Sylvia Vardell discusses J. Patrick Lewis.

Something Like Meter

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0600

An introduction to 2011 Ruth Lilly Prize winner David Ferry.

Adventures in Babysitting

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Bernadette Mayer razes literary giants with love.

The Alternative Press

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire.

Blank Verse

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Danish conceptualist poet Magnus Pavlovski has the last laugh.

How to Pick up a Poetry Habit

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Emily Gould takes a crash course.