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Tales of the Sixties: On the Road to Plainfield [by Alan Ziegler]
In 1969, students can fly half-fare on standby. Sometimes it is cheaper than the bus, so I fly everywhere I can. I am to accompany Alicia from New York back to Goddard College in…
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The Pulitzer win of Gregory Pardlo, Baltimore and what Poetry can do.
Sometimes we are given exactly what we need to do; exactly what’s required of us. And when this happens it means we have been gifted with the immense good fortune to know and understand,…
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Under the Influence – O, Miami poets reflect on their inspirations
Posted by Chauncey Mabe in special arrangement with Best American Poetry, April 2015 As all but the most delusional poets know, originality doesn’t really exist. Every writer is beholden to the books he or…
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Op-Eds declaring the Art of Poetry dead… are dead!! [by Roger Bonair-Agard]
Every few years or so, we are told by someone new that poetry is dead. I’ve been writing poetry seriously for about twenty years now, and I can recall at least five such elegies…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
Inspired by "[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.” Shelley
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This Just In: MARIAM ZAFAR WINS FIFTH ANNUAL PAUL VIOLI PRIZE IN POETRY
The fifth annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry has been awarded to New School MFA in Creative Writing student Mariam Zafar. The second-place winner is Timothy Baker, and honorable mention goes to Zachary Lutz. Each will receive a cash prize and be recognized…
