For “Jack Kerouac Night” August 21 at the minor league ballpark in Lowell, Massachusetts, they’re giving away Kerouac bobblehead dolls! CNN.com reports “The eight-inch doll features Kerouac holding a pen and ... Read More

Bob Holman returned from the 7th annual Poetry Africa festival held in Johannesburg, South Africa in May with a renewed sense of the power of gathered poets... “Africa, specifically South ... Read More

Wish you could experience the performances at a truly international poetry festival, but can’t get there to see them in person? Visit Poetry International Rotterdam’s Camera Poetica and you can ... Read More

About Poetry Forum member Timray ran across this link recently: Darwinian Poetry, an experiment at David Rea’s CodeAsArt site in which readers choose from among pairs of poems made of ... Read More

From Chris Mansell, our Australian Museletter correspondent: Take your poetry on a journey: With Riche du Plessis, I will be leading a writers & photographers workshop tour of Rajasthan this year ... Read More

Museletter correspondent Greg Gillam has all the skinny on the biggest Nationals ever, when “a nation of poetic temperaments” will gather on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago two ... Read More

Have you noticed the newest of our links directories (under Subjects at left): Poetry Blogs? For centuries poets have kept journals, diaries and notebooks, often the raw material from which ... Read More

CA Conrad, a poet who also works in the medium of correspondence, has an interesting project going: he poses 9 questions to 9 poets and publishes the results. It’s fascinating reading ... Read More

Are despair and suicide the special province of poets? This week, hearing the news of Reetika Vazirani’s death by apparent suicide (and the killing of her young son Jehan Vazirani ... Read More

The writing moms at Hip Mama want to know: “Do you have a toddler seat strapped in the back of the tour van? Do you write poetry while the baby ... Read More

The BBC reports that British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has written a free guide to creating funeral speeches, to ensure that every person receives a fitting eulogy. (Unlike the U.S. ... Read More

From our friend Kurt Heintz at e-poets.net: You’re invited to a special event, the Pioneers reading featuring inter-arts poets Duriel Harris & Quraysh Ali Lansana from Chicago and Jayne Fenton Keane ... Read More

From T. Paul Ste. Marie of Thundering Word Heard: The sweet setting of Crush Champagne Lounge invites you to come out to Vancouver’s newest spoken word series -- good company, fine ... Read More

From The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times comes news that Josephine Jacobsen, who served as Poetry Consultant to the U.S. Library of Congress (now the title is Poet ... Read More

Jim Lewis has obviously not had good experience of poetry readings -- why he was chosen to review the British Library’s recently released CD collection of recorded poets (the likes ... Read More

UK correspondent Tim Gibbard offers a glowing report of the Poetry and Spoken Words Tent at this year's Glastonbury Festival. Then he turns his sights forward to the poetry doings ... Read More

An invitation from Gary Mex Glazner, our New Mexico/Southwest correspondent and author of the forthcoming book How To Make Your Living as a Poet, to take part in “a unique ... Read More

Our SoCal correspondent Larry Jaffe returns to Museletter after a long hiatus with memories of the poet’s life in Hollywood, the two very LA Rays in his life, and poetry ... Read More

Dana Gioia, the newly installed chief of the National Endowment for the Arts and a poet, has been paying attention to the decline of print culture, books and magazines increasingly ... Read More

We’ve entered three very different poems in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition: Joseph Posik’s “Her Name Is,” a spare and elegantly archetypal personification of war, Tammy Turner Peaden’s “Talking To ... Read More