A sweet surprise to have the private poet Louise Glück selected as the public manifestation of poetry in the United States. Stanley Kunitz, who was Poet Laureate in 1999, was also ... Read More

from Oni Buchanan & Jon Woodward: “Dear Poets and Poetry Lovers,     It seems that all among us are ever on the lookout for any occasion to help Louisa Solano and the Grolier ... Read More

So many poems, so few moments to absorb them... Once again this week, I’ve been introduced to a poet whose work I want to read only too late, in his ... Read More

Edwin Torres on Performance Poetry in the Digital Age Asked to respond to “The move away from the orthodoxy of the book and printed page -- towards what? Poetry in the ... Read More

Ted Hughes’ will asked that his ashes be scattered on Dartmoor & his name be cut in a granite slab there, but the location of the memorial stone has been ... Read More

from Faith Vicinanza of Hanover Press: “Provocative discussions, insights and the humor of some of the Northeast’s best poets await attendees of the 2003 Connecticut Poetry Festival September 5th, 6th, and 7th ... Read More

Poet & teacher James Tillotson Whitehead died suddenly on Friday, August 17th of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, according to obituaries in The San Francisco Chronicle & The New York Times. He ... Read More

Northern California Museletter correspondent Martha Cinader seeks out the mystery & meaning of a man every poet seems already to know, who is remarkably absent from the World Wide Web: ... Read More

It’s been 12 years since Dana Gioia asked “Can Poetry Matter?” in The Atlantic Monthly, and now William Waltz is stirring the perennial poetic stewpot by asking “Does Poetry Matter?” ... Read More

The giant endowment given to the venerable Poetry magazine last year has prompted growth & movement in the organization: Joseph Parisi has moved across to head up the new Poetry ... Read More

In her third month as judge of the InterBoard Poetry Competition, Claire Hero has selected a rich & varied group of winning poems: Ivan Waters’ vividly creepy “The Gillie’s Evidence,” ... Read More

The Telegraph & The Guardian look back over the life of Frank Templeton Prince, whose first poetry collection was published with the support of T.S. Eliot (when he was an ... Read More

Correspondent Jessie Lendennie writes from the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland, with notes on the summer lit festival season, musings on poetry as the inevitably politicized voice of the people, and ... Read More

The Missoulian and The New York Times have both published obituaries on Great Plains Indian poet James Welch (he was Blackfoot/Gros Ventre), who died at 62 at his home in ... Read More

from Bernard Jankowski, President of Washington Writers’ Publishing House in Silver Spring, Maryland: Calling for manuscripts for our annual poetry book competition -- the deadline has been extended to October 15th. Poets ... Read More

from Janet Fisher & Peter Sansom of The Poetry Business (Huddersfield, Great Britain): Announcing the launch of our 2003 competition, to be judged by Gillian Clarke, poet, playwright, editor, and President ... Read More

from our New England Museletter correspondent & the editor in chief of “a new magazine about poetry, politics & alternative culture,” Victor Infante: “It’s with great pleasure that we announce the ... Read More

Taylor Mignon, our Museletter man in Japan, walks the intertidal zone where Japanese and English poetries overlap and he has gathered “mignettes” like shells from the beach: recent publications from ... Read More

from R.M. Engelhardt of AlbanyPoets.org: Poets from all around are invited to participate in “New York State’s finest poetry & small press gathering,” the 3rd Albany WordFest. September 27, 2003 1 pm - ... Read More

Florida Museletter correspondent Stazja McFadyen covers the range of poets & poetries thriving in the Southeast -- from the five, count ’em, five Florida slam teams participating in this week’s ... Read More