Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize - presented annually by the Poetry Foundation "to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition" - was in ...

Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing in the literature department at UCSD and the author of ten books of poetry, including Versed, Next Life, which was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ...

I came into possession of a collection of poems by Gamini Seneviratne in a way that already felt poetic in itself. I had first met his son, Malinda Seneviratne, himself a poet and a fellow Gratiaen ...

August Kleinzahler leads a discussion on poetics and jazz that followed his reading for the Poem Present series. Kleinzahler uses some film clips to illustrate his points, which we have been omitted.

The word ‘poetry’ is from the Greek term poiesis, which means ‘making’. Regardless of our race, gender, socio-economic ...

Sajjad Sharif's “Asru O Rakter Gatha” -- selected translations of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry -- was the subject of a discussion here on Saturday evening. The discussion, titled ...