Remembering Poetry: Learn’t by Heart Memory has become a vestigial organ like the appendix, that wiggly finger off the intestine that they think was there to help process raw food. Now ... Read More

Our friend Gary Mex Glazner reviews the new live-performance album by Taylor Mali & friends: “a great addition to any poetry collection, and it is that rarest of spoken word ... Read More

For Christmas, the holiday of Peace on Earth and joy to the world, we offer our collection of Poems for Peace.

from Andrei Codrescu & “the Corpse Krewe”: “Our splendid new issue, Cybercorpse No. 13, is now up at www.corpse.org, hungry for your attention. It’s a cornucopia of new sections, such ... Read More

from Mike Rehling of HaikuHut.com: Short Stuff, the print + online journal published at HaikuHut.com, is seeking submissions of poetry, haiga and photohaiku for a new issue scheduled to go up ... Read More

We recently got a letter from Jamie in PA, desperately searching for poemfone numbers: “I just recently have started to get involved with the poemfone concept. I was searching for various ... Read More

John Poch will begin his term as judge for the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in January. He’s published a good number of poems you can read on the Web if ... Read More

whose poem “The Lifeless Light of Love” was awarded an honorable mention in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition by judge Wayne Miller. The other winning poems were: FIRST PLACE: “The Dead ... Read More

from The San Francisco Chronicle: John King is The Chronicle’s architecture writer; his weekly column is called simply “Place.” Last week’s episode focused on the poem-plaza incorporated into a new building ... Read More

from The Daily Telegraph (UK) & The Globe and Mail (Canada): “Britain’s Poet Laureate [Andrew Motion is] leading the search for best soccer chant” “Andrew Motion launches search for laureate of the ... Read More

We’re proud to announce the three poems selected to represent the About Poetry Forum in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition: “The Lifeless Light of Love” by Suzanne Delaney, which was ... Read More