http://dir.salon.com/topics/poetry/?source=rss&aim=poetry en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT By Garrison Keillor Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/04/15/poetry_month/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/04/15/poetry_month/index.html?source=rss 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 Cary Tennis Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/07/20/poetic_moment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/07/20/poetic_moment/index.html?source=rss This longing comes over me, exciting but unpleasant: Is it a memory? What is it called? By Abigail Kramer Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/05/01/carol_duffy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/05/01/carol_duffy/index.html?source=rss Once called a "poetess" by her male colleagues, Carol Ann Duffy becomes the first woman to hold the prestigious post. By Jim Fisher Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/01/15/inauguration_poem/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/01/15/inauguration_poem/index.html?source=rss Elizabeth Alexander has been commissioned to write a poem for Inauguration Day. But the checkered history of the form suggests it's an almost impossible task. By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/06/patti_smith/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/06/patti_smith/index.html?source=rss A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures rock pioneer Patti Smith during her comeback years, surrounded by death and life. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/06/02/bt_muldoon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/06/02/bt_muldoon/index.html?source=rss The poet recalls his Irish roots and reads "The Coyote." By Garrison Keillor Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/02/13/roethke/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/02/13/roethke/index.html?source=rss Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/01/28/bt_collins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/01/28/bt_collins/index.html?source=rss Poet Billy Collins reflects on teaching, reading and writing poetry. By David Puner Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2007/02/15/to_my_love/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2007/02/15/to_my_love/index.html?source=rss Our word-challenged Don Juan finds inspiration in the most unlikely of objects. By Camille Paglia Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/04/07/paglia_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/04/07/paglia_excerpt/index.html?source=rss 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 Scott Thill Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/18/poetry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/18/poetry/index.html?source=rss 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 Jim Fisher Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/02/e_mail_to_australia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/02/e_mail_to_australia/index.html?source=rss From dull longing to document to electrical pulse ... By Kate Moses Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/10/17/plath/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/10/17/plath/index.html?source=rss 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 Laura Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/02/18/moses/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/02/18/moses/index.html?source=rss Novelist Kate Moses on her portrait of Sylvia Plath during the grim London winter when she changed literary history -- and then killed herself. By Elizabeth Gold Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/04/02/poetry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/04/02/poetry/index.html?source=rss Forget National Poetry Month -- poets would be much better off if they learned to repackage their volumes of verse as self-help manuals. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/comics/2002/03/13/lynda30/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/comics/2002/03/13/lynda30/index.html?source=rss When #3 is #1! By Cary Tennis Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/02/14/surreal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2002/02/14/surreal/index.html?source=rss Could it be that such derangement can rescue us from a torpor of the senses? By Amy Standen Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/12/barks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/12/barks/index.html?source=rss Translator Coleman Barks discusses the bestselling poet who's loved equally among Yanks and Afghans. By Laura Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/08/01/lesbos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/08/01/lesbos/index.html?source=rss 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 David Lehman Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/01/19/lehman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/01/19/lehman/index.html?source=rss 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 JoAnn Gutin Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/06/bestof/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/06/bestof/index.html?source=rss From short stories to sports and science writing, "Best of" anthologies prove that readers like their books preselected. Interview by the Paris Review Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/hsthompson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/hsthompson/index.html?source=rss In this rare interview, the psychedelic writer talks about Vietnam and the death of the American dream. Read by Priscilla Becker Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/becker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/becker/index.html?source=rss The poet and schoolteacher reads about the harsh reality in childhood drawings and offers "a translation from English to English." By Melanie Rehak Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/24/ashbery/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/24/ashbery/index.html?source=rss A great American poet delivers one of his most emotional, honest and generous collections. By Mark Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2000/10/16/r_l_jones/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2000/10/16/r_l_jones/index.html?source=rss 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.