I end this month's run of ekphrastic poems with yet another approach to the genre, by  John Yau  (1950-), a poet whose work has gar...

Monica Youn I should start today's post by saying I'd initially imagined, as I often do, that these entries would be brief and ...

Lucie Brock-Broido (Concord Poetry Center) The award-winning poet Lucie Brock-Broido  (1956-2018) passed away yesterday at the age of 6...

John Ashbery receiving the National Medal for the Arts from President Barack Obama, in 2012 Today is the 90th birthday of John Ashbery...

Brigit Pegeen Kelly (Academy of American Poets) I was very sorry to learn via Twitter that poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly  had passed away...

One of the treats of this year's Inter/National Poetry Month  is the publication of a new collection of poems by  James Baldwin  (192...

Wanda Coleman at Woodland Pattern's 25th Anniversary Celebration, Milwaukee (© Woodland Pattern) There is so much to say when a gr...

I plan to post a short note, with photos doing most of the talking, about this past weekend's Dark Room Collective  reunion at Poets ...

I've asked the same question on this blog about her distant relative Robert Lowell (1917-1977), but does anyone read Amy Lowell (1874-...

He is 85 years old, and one of the most famous living American poets, a vital figure in mid-to-late 20th century experimental poetics, a ...

Ishmael Reed (National Black Writers Conference) We come to the end of Poetry Month . Since I began the month with a poem by a poet I k...

W. H. Auden (Photo © Jill Krementz) I mentioned him in yesterday's (or a recent) post, so here a poem by the one and only W. H. Au...

Denise Levertov Do students read Denise Levertov (1923-1997) in high school or college these days? Do high school teachers or college ...