Poetry

Write a poem. Get the girl Write a poem. Get the girl

The real message of Poetry Month has nothing to do with rereading Eliot or Wordsworth. It's all about winning the favor of women.
By Garrison Keillor Apr 15, 2009

  • Big Think: Paul Muldoon on far-flung metaphors

    The poet recalls his Irish roots and reads "The Coyote."
    June 2, 2008

  • Out of great suffering comes beauty

    Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home.
    By Garrison Keillor February 13, 2008

  • Big Think: "The theme of poetry is death"

    Poet Billy Collins reflects on teaching, reading and writing poetry.
    January 28, 2008

  • "To My Love"

    Our word-challenged Don Juan finds inspiration in the most unlikely of objects.
    By David Puner February 15, 2007

  • A poet battles -- and breaks free

    In an excerpt from her new book, "Break, Blow, Burn," Camille Paglia takes on Wanda Coleman's poem "Wanda Why Aren't You Dead."
    By Camille Paglia April 7, 2005

  • Eminem vs. Robert Frost

    Is hip-hop saving poetry -- or trashing it? Beneath the feel-good rhetoric of "Def Poetry Jam" and the "spoken-word revolution" is a battle over the future of literature's oldest form.
    By Scott Thill March 18, 2004

  • E-mail to Australia

    From dull longing to document to electrical pulse ...
    By Jim Fisher March 2, 2004

  • Whose Plath is it anyway?

    England's longest-running literary soap opera enters a new chapter, as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter wages war against ghouls, obsessives and the makers of "Sylvia" (as well as novelists like me).
    By Kate Moses October 17, 2003

  • A lioness in winter

    Novelist Kate Moses on her portrait of Sylvia Plath during the grim London winter when she changed literary history -- and then killed herself.
    By Laura Miller February 18, 2003

  • Who moved my iambic pentameter?

    Forget National Poetry Month -- poets would be much better off if they learned to repackage their volumes of verse as self-help manuals.
    By Elizabeth Gold April 2, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    When #3 is #1!
    March 13, 2002

  • Surrealist love poems

    Could it be that such derangement can rescue us from a torpor of the senses?
    By Cary Tennis February 14, 2002

  • Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA

    Translator Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans.
    By Amy Standen October 12, 2001

  • "The Sappho Companion" by Margaret Reynolds

    Genius? Pervert? Seducer and murderer? Homely bluestocking? Nymphomaniac? Every age has its own version of the woman whose 2,600-year-old verses invented the poetry of love.
    By Laura Miller August 1, 2001

  • A poetry-free presidency

    The lack of a poet at Bush's Inauguration is a bleak omen of his administration's attitude toward culture -- but then again, what poet would agree to appear?
    By David Lehman January 19, 2001

  • Freedom from choice

    From short stories to sports and science writing, "Best of" anthologies prove that readers like their books preselected.
    By JoAnn Gutin December 6, 2000

  • Hunter S. Thompson

    In this rare interview, the psychedelic writer talks about Vietnam and the death of the American dream.
    Interview by the Paris Review December 5, 2000

  • Priscilla Becker

    The poet and schoolteacher reads about the harsh reality in childhood drawings and offers "a translation from English to English."
    Read by Priscilla Becker December 5, 2000

  • "Your Name Here" by John Ashbery

    A great American poet delivers one of his most emotional, honest and generous collections.
    By Melanie Rehak October 24, 2000

  • A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones

    With a new album out and a new tour coming, the cool chanteuse discusses Britney, Christina, Jack Nicholson and sex, hope, baseball, Madonna and good cooking.
    By Mark Miller October 16, 2000
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