Victor Infante, our New England correspondent, has gone peripatetic. He wrote this column just after returning from a gathering of poets from all over in Southern California, and it seems ... Read More

Sandy de Nimes, “the paramour of the plume,” sent us this review of Gary Mex Glazner’s 2002 book of poems, travel stories & essays with a note: “Two weeks ago, ... Read More

The current judge for the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition (Wayne Miller) has announced the November winners -- interesting reading made more so by Miller’s extensive analytical commentary. FIRST PLACE: “Sacrifice, Leaves ... Read More

Poets, do you combine experiment, exploration, existential freedom in your work with form, structure, stricture, constraint? Then you will want to look into the Fitzpatrick-O’Dinn Award for the Best Book ... Read More

English language poesie is thriving in Yaponesia, and our correspondent Taylor Mignon is keeping the linkage going strong across the sea. His focus in this edition of Museletter is the ... Read More

from Milkweed Editions: New out this month is a collection of William Stafford’s writings on peace and war, edited by his son Kim Stafford: Every War Has Two Losers, including never-before-published ... Read More

from The San Francisco Chronicle: “High Court considers teen’s poetic license” The California Supreme Court is currently considering arguments filed by 2003 Nobel prizewinner J.M. Coetzee & other novelists & poets in ... Read More

In a new interview online at Afrikana, Sekou Sundiata, poet of “Rhythm & News,” talks about how performance poetry fits into the long tradition of our oral art, “the marriage ... Read More

from the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut: The reading period for the next national chapbook competition sponsored by the renowned Sunken Garden Poetry Festival began November 1 & the deadline is ... Read More

web del sol, home of the InterBoard Poetry Competition & Del Sol Press, has announced its first annual poetry book-length competition, inviting “submissions from both emerging and established poets, published ... Read More

from The San Francisco Chronicle (with thanks to Jon Corelis of the Newpoetry list for pointing out the story: “Berkeley’s poet promenade” “Hollywood sidewalks boast the handprints of movie stars in front ... Read More