Poetry

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  • Gertrude Stein

    "If I Told Him"
    October 5, 2000

  • Rescued by the Word

    The mortician author of "The Undertaking" picks five books to remind you that poetry can save your life.
    By Thomas Lynch July 21, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    The global impact of the D.C. protests Plus: Are Benetton death penalty ads art? Should organs be for sale?
    April 20, 2000

  • "Men in the Off Hours" by Anne Carson

    The poet's breathtaking fourth collection takes in the picnic of sex and love and death that time spreads in its wake.
    By Kate Moses April 5, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Left, right, left: Who will march for gun control? Plus: Pine Ridge is off the media's map; Palestinian poetry doesn't belong in Israeli classrooms.
    March 15, 2000

  • The Palestinian verses

    The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop.
    By Flore de Preneuf March 11, 2000

  • 21st Challenge No. 31

    Shall I compare thee to a transistor? Shakespearean odes to technology.
    By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau February 26, 2000

  • Word doctor

    A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
    By Rafael Campo, M.D. December 8, 1999

  • Poetry nation?

    Thousands of Americans sent poems to the Favorite Poem Project -- but that doesn't necessarily mean poetry is thriving.
    By Melanie Rehak November 17, 1999

  • Late bloomers

    Two debuts by poets who are no longer girls prove the value of knowing something about life before you write about it.
    By Melanie Rehak November 5, 1999

  • Bye-bye beatnik

    Two unusual takes on Jack Kerouac's death and legacy. Plus: Viagra raves, zines that shouldn't exist and real-life Halloween scares.
    By Jenn Shreve October 29, 1999

  • The Beats go on

    Filmmaker Chuck Workman on "The Source," his fawning tribute to the Beat generation.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams June 2, 1999

  • Word up

    Two new films, 'Slamnation' and 'Slam,' celebrate -- and exaggerate -- the power of spoken word"
    By Hank Hyena October 23, 1998

  • The Good Father

    Ted Hughes' 'Birthday Letters' makes it clear, once and for all, whom his silence has been protecting all these years -- his children.
    By Kate Moses February 6, 1998

  • Bitter fame

    Ted Hughes' long silence about his life with Sylvia Plath was considered by many as a sign that he did not care. But in "Birthday Letters," his book of brilliant, evocative poems about their life together, one begins to understand, for the first time, the nature of their love, and its tragic dimensions.
    By Jay Parini February 6, 1998

  • Nursing the Muse

    For poet Belle Waring, art doesn't imitate life, it is life
    By Lori Leibovich January 16, 1998

  • See you later, lunar crater

    Once upon a time, every boy and girl could recite poetry. Verse went out with T.S. Eliot, but now it's back and running rampant through children's literature. Polly Shulman reviews four new books.
    By Polly Shulman January 12, 1998
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