Rick Benjamin: Read Poetry To Change Your Life
Rick Benjamin says the reason to write poetry is to be of use, he says. The reason to read poetry is that it might change your life.
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Poems About Family
Hope you had a happy holiday, and that your family gathering was greeting card perfect. But perhaps after a few too many baby-induced wake ups and boozy political arguments, you got a little anxious to leave?
Will Santa Obama Deliver?
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land / We hoped Santa Obama would bring fortune in hand. / Small businesses hung stockings by the chimney with care, / In hopes that stimulus funding soon would be there.
Sweaty Sex and Alan Watts
I think I'll continue to pay attention to those voracious lovers and darers of life, the risk takers, and the committed like Alan Watts.
Poetry in American High Schools
The days of poets scribbling their thoughts with quill pens are over. Today's young poets post their verse on the web, where they can instantly receive feedback from fellow romantic poets in Argentina.
Two Books
Two poets -- singing the same song in different keys -- create new maps of poetic consciousness.
The Women of Troy: Upstate Girls
"No makeup, all attitude." The cast of Brenda Ann Kenneally's documentary photo project is comprised of single upstate mothers living beneath the radar of the mainstream American dream.
Sir Andrew Motion: poetry that looks like water and bites like gin
Sir Andrew Motion succeeded Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson and, immediately, Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He can sound like the el...
SOLDIER TO POET: An Exchange
We cannot get away from the romanticism of war -- indeed, we romanticize it every day, even as we curse the notion. And this war is epic, to be sure. Think back to the first act in this play.
Poetry Best Sellers Of 2009
Every week, the Poetry Foundation compiles information from Nielsen Bookscan and puts together lists of the best selling books of poetry. Here are 2009's best selling books of contemporary poetry:
Living A Poetic Life
Who would not want a little more poetry in their life? And I am not talking about drama, I am talking about poetry. And not necessarily Keats either.
Keith Waldrop, Quilter in Phrases
Keith Waldrop eschews any intention or meaning that you could point to in his work. He makes statements here and there, but his poetry, he's said, is about "having nothing to say and saying it."
'Infidel Poetics' and Magic Unicorns
The infidels are here to crush your pearls of wisdom. Sorry. This is especially bad news for readers who hope that the poets of the world know something special, and that poems exist to deliver the goods.
The Best Books of the Decade
Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."
A Poet's Christmas List
David Starkey of the Santa Barbara Independent listed ten poetry books he finds fit for giving this season. The new Wallace Stevens collection stands out for me.
This is Your Brain on Poetry
Memory has generated great poems from Simonides, famous for eulogizing ancient Greek nobility, to Coleridge, to the contemporary poets writing an "experiment in collective autobiography," The Grand Piano.
Tiger Woods Exclusive: William Blake Rewrites a Famous Poem
Just after reading the latest story about a famous golfer whose behind-the-wheel driving has turned out to be not quite up to par, I had a dream in which William Blake appeared to me and dictated the following.
The Creative Spark
It took me months and years before I finally gathered enough courage to print off a bunch of my poems, and plonk them furtively on the table of a trusted friend.
Afghanistan Nightmare: the Only Light in this Dark Tunnel
The dream of Obama is now dead. He has turned out to be, as I had begun to fear a few months back, really just like the others that came before him.
Meet Haiku Herman--Europe's New Poet President
Van Rompuy is becoming known throughout the continent for his passion for writing poetry. Dubbed "Haiku Herman" by the British press, he is said to regularly compose haikus during his daily meetings.
This Thanksgiving, Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War
In Mary Rowlandson's hugely popular captivity narrative from 1676, she describes her colony's struggles with the natives and how, when such a struggle was won, the town leaders held days of public thanksgiving.
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