Poets are not only “the first responders of the imagination when a community is faced with catastrophic events” — they are the artists who put collective experience into words from ... Read More

Getting your poems published and read isn’t easy. The big commercial publishing houses devote most of their efforts to books that sell better than poetry collections, and a writer may ... Read More

A couple of weeks ago I was captivated by The Source, Chuck Workman’s documentary in which you can see and hear the Beat generation writers and their poems on film. ... Read More

If you’ve spent the summer polishing a poem or a chapbook manuscript or even a full-length collection, now’s the time to pack it up & send it off to one ... Read More

A great deal of attention is being paid to Dylan Thomas these days... His daughter Aeronwy recently completed a U.S. tour during which she gave readings of her father’s and ... Read More

When I moved to San Francisco in the mid-1980s, came under the influence of its electric and eclectic performance poetry scene, and began to read my own poems out loud ... Read More

Once again there was only a single nomination posted in the InterBoard Poetry Competition folder, so Poetry Guide Margy Snyder has chosen a couple of her favorite poems from those ... Read More