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  National Poetry Month | 04.01.11

  3060 readersAlong with April showers also come poems.  Today kicks off the start of National Poetry Month, and the Academy of American Poets is recognizing the event by posting thirty poets on their Twitter account–a different day, a different poet.  Each poet will post his or her thoughts and insights.  Here’s the schedule: 4/1 D.A. Powell 4/2 Dawn

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  Caroline Kennedy Celebrates National Poetry Month

  2999 readersThis week Caroline Kennedy appeared at a New York City Barnes & Noble to celebrate National Poetry Month and promote the release of her new book, She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems. Poet Sharon Olds (who has two pieces in Ke...

• American Life in Poetry: Column 280 | 08.03.10

  946 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Marilyn Kallet lives and teaches in Tennessee. Over the years I have read many poems about fireflies, but of all of them hers seems to offer the most and dearest peace. Fireflies In the dry summer field at nightfall, fireflies rise like sparks. Imagine the presence of ghosts flickering, the ghosts of young friends, your

• American Life in Poetry: Column 297 | 11.30.10

  3582 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 To be stumped by the very last crossword puzzle you ever will work on, well, that’s defeat, but a small and amusing defeat. Here George Bilgere, a poet from Ohio, gives us a picture of his mother’s last day on earth. Blank When I came to my mother’s house the day after

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  When Should Poetry Rhyme?

  3855 readersRhyme, although common, is not an essential attribute of poetry. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook. Original Post: When Should Poetry Rhyme?

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  InDefinite Podcast Episode #24: Erica Wright

  4268 readersListen: Episode #24: Erica Wright This episode of InDefinite Podcast features New York-based poet Erica Wright reading Instructions for Killing the Jackal from Black Lawrence Press. The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and at the Black Lawrence Press website. Erica Wright is the author of Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press,

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  InDefinite Podcast: Erica Wright

  3940 readersListen: Episode #24: Erica Wright This episode of InDefinite Podcast features New York-based poet Erica Wright reading Instructions for Killing the Jackal from Black Lawrence Press. The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and at the Black Lawrence Press website. Erica Wright is the author of Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press,

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  American Life in Poetry: Column 304 | 01.18.11

  2837 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 After my mother died, one of the most difficult tasks for my sister and me was to take the clothes she’d made for herself to a thrift shop. In this poem, Frannie Lindsay, a Massachusetts poet, remembers a similar experience. The Thrift Shop Dresses I slid the white louvers shut so

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  InDigest 3 Year Anniversary Party in New York!!! | 11.24.10

  3799 readersIt’s almost been three years! three whole years of online postulations, poetics, wordsmithery, and ephemera. We’re going to be through a couple of parties to celebrate. On December 12th we’ll have a little shin dig at the 1207 home base at Le Poisson Rouge. There will be verbal jousting, readings from 9 readers who have

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  Why We Need Poetry

  1937 readersI don’t know if it’s because poetry is the language of rebels, artists and mavericks, confounding expectations, breaking rules and saying this, this is how things might be or maybe that at times of the deepest emotion, we turn as if by instinct, back to poetry Of course perhaps it’s the invitation to play, to