The Best Poetry for Dark Winter Days

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand ...
PBS

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn

Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with Stephen Dunn, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about his collection, titled Different Hours. The winner in poetry this year was Stephen Dunn for his ...
The New York Times

Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did.

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this ...
Seattle Times

American Life in Poetry: A new poem every week

We’re starting a new weekly column today, designed to give you a little literary treat: a different poem each Friday. “American Life in Poetry,” the column’s title, is supported by The Poetry ...
Seattle Weekly

Two Poets Demonstrate Very Different Approaches to Funny Poems

Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines, poems ...
The Atlantic

When a Poem by a White, Male Author Smells Less Sweet

The Best American Poetry, an annual anthology of verse, contains an unusual contributor’s note this year. It’s written by Michael Derrick Hudson, a white poet who writes under the pseudonym Yi-Fen ...