HAPPY POETRY MONTH! Back in 2018 I posted a clip on here of a young performer, Orlando Watt , on YouTube  performing a snippet of my poem ...

Last year I had the pleasure of translating a small cache of poems by Arnaldo Antunes (1960-), a Brazilian musician, composer and writ...

John Keats If there is a perennial pre-1900s poem about art from the Anglo-American literary tradition , the English Romantic  poet  ...

W. H. Auden Every month should be Poetry Month --and Fiction Month  and Literature Month --we could go down the list, but since 1996, r...

Rosetta Stone (from AfricaWrites.org ) During the most recent ( Inter)National Poetry Month , poet and critic Daniel Borzutzky was inv...

Adam Johnson (1965-1993), not the recent Pulitzer Prize winner but the late lyric poet bearing his name, was one of the promising Britis...

I could not possibly post poetry about the night without again posting a poem by Xavier Villarrutia , one of whose poems I translated and...

Whenever I think of Charles Baudelaire 's The Flowers of Evil (Les fleurs du mal ), which rattled Francophone poetry when it initially a...

Rainer Rilke My very first post in 2005 was a notice about Jay Wright ; my second offered a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke  (1875-1926), ...

Of Osip Mandelshtam 's (1891-1938) Poems , which appeared in 1928, Robert Chandler writes that they "register a disintegration s...

Nikki Giovanni (www.afropoets.net) Ah, Nikki Giovanni (1943-). When I was in junior high and starting high school she was my favorite...