As you might know from my previous entries I have been a part of Poetry Parnassus - the biggest gathering of poets in modern history. Nearly 200 poets representing Olympic nations came to London, not ...
The award for poetry this year went to Mark Strand for his book "Blizzard of One." It's Strand's ninth book of poetry. He has also published several books of translations, edited poetry anthologies, ...
April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...
Poetry is the music of our soul. The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, popularly known as P.B. Shelley, wrote, "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar ...
In its early years, Poetry magazine threw its weight behind the Imagist movement, which included now-canonical poets like William "Red Wheelbarrow" Williams, Ezra "the Fascist Sympathizer" Pound, and ...
“All poetry is experimental poetry,” Wallace Stevens once said. And the world of contemporary poetry is much like the world of fantastical and science fictional prose narratives. And if you value ...