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  Take the Poem-a-Day Challenge

  3708 readersHappy National Poetry Month! Over at Writers Digest, Poetry Asides blogger Robert Lee Brewer launched the Poem-a-Day Challenge. At the same time, poets around the country have joined the annual National Poetry Writing Month. The challenge is simple: write a poem every day in April. The challenge kicked off on yesterday and will run until May

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  Poem of the Day: Amaranth Borsuk – “The Smell of Rain on Surfaces” | 02.20.12

  4948 readersListen: Amaranth Borsuk – “The Smell of Rain on Surface” Today’s poem is by Amaranth Borsuk. She is the author of a book of poems, Handiwork, selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize (forthcoming), a chapbook, Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), and, with Brad Bouse, the hybrid digital/print artist’s book Between

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  The New School’s Lineage: American Poetry Since 1950 | 02.07.11

  4738 readersOn February 24 at 7:00 pm, The New School will host a public discussion based upon the first 50 winners of the National Book Award.  The event will feature poets such as Elizabeth Alexander, Stephen Burt, Tony Hoagland, James Longenbach, Maureen McLane, and Susan Stewart who will use the award

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  National Book Foundation Announces This Year’s 5 Under 35 Honorees

  3446 readersSince 2006, the National Book Foundation (NBF) has hosted the “5 Under 35″ award ceremony to highlight the achievements of five young fiction writers. For the first time a young-adult author, John Corey Whaley, has been selected as an honoree. This year recognizes the following titles: The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu (selected

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  David St. John: ‘My advice would be for most poets to read more slowly.’

  5466 readersHappy National Poetry Month! All throughout April, we interviewed poets about working in the digital age. Recently we spoke with National Book Award finalist David St. John. St. John has written and edited several volumes of poetry. He serves as a creative writing professor at the University of Southern California. In March 2012 he released a

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  Poem of the Day: Henri Cole – “Away” | 03.26.12

  3801 readersListen: Henri Cole – “Away” Today we’ve got a poem by Henri Cole titled “Away,” which comes from his most recent collection, Touch [Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011]. Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published eight collections of poetry, including Middle Earth, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

• American Life in Poetry: Column 313 | 03.22.11

  3576 readersby Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Go for a walk and part of whatever you walk through rides back on your socks. Here Peter Everwine, a California poet, tells us about the seeds that stick to us, in all their beauty and variety. Back from the Fields Until nightfall my son ran in the fields, looking for God

• Brooklyn Book Festival Beat Rainy Afternoon

  1483 readers Despite Mother Nature's refusal to cooperate, readers from around New York City attended the 5th annual Brooklyn Book Festival yesterday. Festival founder and Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz commented: "Well, Brooklyn is the literary center of New York City. And if you don't believe me, look. Look for yourselves. If you're into reading, this

• Shel Silverstein Reads ‘Backward Bill’ Poem

  3899 readersHappy National Poetry Month! We reported earlier that HarperCollins will soon release Every Thing On It, a new collection of Shel Silverstein poetry. To prepare, we’ve dug up a video of Silverstein himself reading his poem “Backward Bill&#...

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  National Poetry Month | 04.01.11

  3874 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