Does the Po-Scene Need a Bailout?
Monday September 29, 2008
The week before last, Poetry (yes, with a capital P) was the vehicle for an Onion satire on government waste... Now the estimable Charles Bernstein has taken the financial crisis ... Read More
Cutting Up Kubla Khan
Thursday September 18, 2008
Thinking about the link between baseball and poetry a couple of weeks ago as we neared the end of this year’s baseball season, I was reminded of a performance poem ... Read More
Poets: Don’t you wish this bit of satire were true?
Monday September 15, 2008
This showed up in my inbox over the weekend among the news items mentioning poets or poems:
from The Onion:
“National Endowment For The Arts Funds Construction Of $1.3 Billion Poem”
Alas, it ... Read More
InterBoard Poetry Competition Update
Friday September 12, 2008
Last week we received the announcement of July winners in the InterBoard Poetry Competition, and we understand that the judge has nearly finalized his choices of August winners—although the announcement ... Read More
Poems in memory of 9.11.2001
Tuesday September 9, 2008
It can be a great compliment to say that a poem is “timeless” — but many great poems are also inextricably bound to their time, rising out of history & ... Read More
Baseball Poems — Often Populist Summer Perennials
Saturday September 6, 2008
Most Americans have heard the classic baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat” — and I know a performance poet who did a hilarious cutup combining that poem with Samuel Taylor ... Read More
Summer Poems, as Summer Moves into Fall
Monday September 1, 2008
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, traditionally marks the end of the summer school holidays in the United States — and it’s early this year, the very first day ... Read More