November 2008
Poems by Roberto Bolaño, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Philip Levine, Mary Szybist, and others; a visual poetry portfolio edited by Geof Huth; Adam Kirsch; and more
Poetry News: 30 Most Recent Entries
11.20.08
Revisiting Canterbury with a modern tongue.
The Christian Science Monitor on Doty's Fire to Fire.
Letters from four decades of the Beat movement.
Poetry and the "just barely nameable."
Kleinzhaler wins Lannan Foundation $150,000.
Mark Doty wins the National Book Award.
Kevin Hart's "Uh Oh Time."
Ani Difranco, terrified by "Verses."
11.19.08
Pasolini's poetry half in love with death.
The National Book Awards have Texas in their soul.
Remembering Donald Finkel.
Judge drops criminal investigation into Locra's killers.
Milton and Babar together at last in the Morgan Library.
Maya Angelou and Martina McBride.
Bellevue as Beat clubhouse.
M.I.T. asks: Have Homer and Shakespeare had their day?
11.18.08
Jack Spicer's uncomfortable music in Bookforum.
Interviewing W.H. Auden in the Michigan Quarterly.
Jordan Davis on Yusef Komunyakaa in the SF Chronicle.
Zbigniew Herbert has "the unpleasantness of great poetry."
"The poet of Dumbwoman's lane sallies forth": Paul McCartney at auction.
The poetry of urban Jakarta.
Doggerel for Muske-Dukes.
St. Louis poet Donald Finkel is dead.
Mallarmé, Hornick, and four Hindu poems for the Inscape Chamber Orchestra.
11.17.08
1956 Gary Snyder recording found at Reed College.
"When gossip grows old, it becomes myth": the Letters of Ted Hughes.
Jeanette Winterson on T.S. Eliot and her tough teens.
The trouble with gum ingredients: Chicago Tribune imagines Billy Collins as ad man.
Lewis Hyde and poetry's "gift economy".
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Poetry and contratiempo Present:
A bilingual reading featuring the work of
Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Sánchez, and more
November 19, 7:00 PM, Café Efebos
Art Beyond Borders: Paul Muldoon
Thursday, November 20, 6 PM
