‘Perennial’ : This translated selection of poems provides a window to contemporary Hindi poetry

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

'The slipperiness of Language': Poems don't earn a living, but poets say they don't care (with video, audio)

IF YOU GOWhat: Aaron Belz will read from "Glitter Bomb," his third book of poems.When: 7-10:30 p.m. Friday, April 4.Where: St. Elmo Fire Hall, 4501 St. Elmo Ave.Admission: Free.Phone: 521-5230. 'My ...
Seattle Times

Poems on the renewal of language — and inner youth

University of Illinois Press, 109 pp., $50 hardcover, $19.95 paperback Mark Strand, former poet laureate of the United States, has received countless awards. Coming nearly 45 years after his first ...
The Nation

Among the Tufted Canes: Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

Geoffrey Brock’s anthology of twentieth-century Italian poetry offers the risk of a counter-eloquence. Poetry, said Robert Frost, is what is lost in translation. Consider the opposite formulation: ...
PBS

Weekly Poem: W. S. Di Piero uses language to create ’emotional immediacy’

W. S. Di Piero never wants to hear again that his poems are intense. “You get tired of hearing certain things if they get said so many times about the kind of work you do. I don’t write poems that are ...
Juneau Empire

Co-written Tlingit and English-language poem celebrates birth

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...