Category: Poetry

Here are a couple of interesting news items relating to the always-active Stephen Burt, author of The Forms of Youth: Twentieth Century Poetry and Adolescence and the editor of Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden, which was recently selected by...

Much is made of William Logan’s more acerbic side. He has been called “The Dirty Harry of the Poetry Beat” and “The Most Hated Man in American Poetry” and has become well known for his sharp, biting takedowns of such...

Earlier this month, we published excerpts from William Logan’s Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue. Readers of Logan’s criticism, which appears in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, can attest to the fact that...

It has almost become of a rite of Spring for publishers to trot out their books of poetry in April for National Poetry Month. Admittedly, we do the same (though we do talk about poetry in other months). We begin...