Wong May updates the Tang Dynasty poets for the 21st century. | Continue reading
Few critics have even admitted that Hamlet the play is the primary problem, and Hamlet the character only secondary. And Hamlet the character has had an especial temptation for that... | Continue reading
Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! | Continue reading
I have met them at close of day | Continue reading
January 1996 | A. Ammons, Cynthia Belmont, Randy Blasing, Neal Bowers, Andrea Hollander, William Dickey, Fred Dings, Stephen Dunn, Albert Goldbarth, Laurie Greer, Shmuel Ha Nagid, Mary Hughes, Karl Kirchwey, Judy Longley, Roberta Marggraff, W. Merwin, Stanley Moss, Anne Rouse, A. … | Continue reading
If we must die, let it not be like hogs | Continue reading
While in graduate school at the University of Houston, I supplemented my income by working as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS). I was with WITS... | Continue reading
Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America. | Continue reading
Now winter downs the dying of the year, | Continue reading
It must be troubling for the god who loves you | Continue reading
On the words we lack. | Continue reading
I met a traveller from an antique land, | Continue reading
Heiner Müller—poet, playwright, and informant—embodied the divisions of postwar Germany. | Continue reading
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, | Continue reading
All my friends are finding new beliefs. | Continue reading
Reminiscences of poetry and the internet. | Continue reading
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, | Continue reading
Living in Dutch and English. | Continue reading
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. | Continue reading
Andrew Alexander of Atlanta Magazine spends time with Georgia Tech Professor and Waffle House Poet Laureate Karen Head to learn more about her very recent and truly official appointment. To... | Continue reading
I think that I shall never see | Continue reading
How Ed Sanders, a peace-loving poet, wrote the definitive account of the Manson murders. | Continue reading
Pablo Neruda's exile marked one of the 20th century's greatest literary chase scenes, and the Cold War's first global manhunt. | Continue reading
Boy, am I glad that I didn't build UbuWeb on the cloud. There were times when I actually considered it. I mean, it sounded so good: unlimited server space, bandwidth,... | Continue reading
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; | Continue reading
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, | Continue reading
On the centenary of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poems. | Continue reading
For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat. | Continue reading
Maya Angelou’s cookbooks are a rich part of her literary legacy. | Continue reading
In an essay called "Pragmatism and Romanticism" I tried to restate the argument of Shelley's "Defense of Poetry." At the heart of Romanticism, I said, was the claim that reason... | Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin’s poetry reveals a writer humbled by the craft. | Continue reading
A couple years ago, a poet friend asked me for advice on opening a non-profit small press bookstore and arts space. My wife, visual artist Marina Eckler, had recently opened... | Continue reading
Stephen King is one of the world’s most popular writers. Why isn’t his poetry more widely read? | Continue reading