Tag: Poetry

September 3, 2014

Back to School with Anne Campbell — Mike Chasar

The following post is by Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America. The essay was also published in Arcade: A little less than a year back, I wrote about Edgar Guest, the longtime poet...

May 15, 2013

Poetry: The News that Stays News — Stephen Burt

“So where did this idea come about that poems are the opposite of journalism, that poets do what reporters cannot, and vice versa?”—Stephen Burt The following post by Stephen Burt was originally published on Nieman Reports. In the post Stephen...

April 16, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz Answers

Columbia University Press has had the privilege of publishing two volumes of critical essays by the poet and critic William Logan, Our Savage Age: Poetry and the Civil Tongue and The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin. As...

April 12, 2013

William Logan Poetry Criticism Quiz

Take our quiz on William Logan’s poetry criticism for a chance to win FREE copies of William Logan’s Our Savage Age and The Undiscovered Country!

April 11, 2013

Siobhan Phillips — A Case for Collected Poems

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips, author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse: We come on poetry in any number of ways. We dip into anthologies, page through journals, take in our favorite’s...

April 10, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Wild World of Lulu

In the following post, Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, explores the new publishing options open to poets and whether poetry still needs publishers: Poetry is cunning. Eternally broke and without resources, it manages...

December 17, 2012

Mike Chasar — Jingle All the Way: Saint Nick and the Poetry of Santa's Ring Toss

In the following post, Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America, explores the ways in which a poem related to a Coca-Cola holiday promotion exposes how the commercial and non-commercial aspects of the holidays...

December 6, 2012

Mike Chasar and Jed Rasula on the Poetry Glut

“For me, the glut isn’t a glut so much as a fundamental condition of poetry in the long twentieth century … Realizing that means reassessing our histories of American poetry, the maps and guidebooks we produce about it, and the...

July 26, 2012

Poetry of the Taliban — "Waiting for Freedom"

We conclude our week-long feature on Poetry of the Taliban with one of the final poems in the collection, “Waiting for Freedom” (2007), by Lutfullah. (For more on Poetry of the Taliban: watch a interview with the book’s editors; browse...

July 25, 2012

Poetry of the Taliban — "How long?"

The works in Poetry of the Taliban give voice to the Afghans’ view of their country in the wake of the U.S. occupation and the U.S.-backed Karzai government. In this 2007 poem M.A. expresses frustration with Afghanistan’s current state and...

June 19, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Modernism at the Barricades and International Poetry

Our weekly list of new titles includes Stephen Bronner’s reinterpretation of the cultural politics of modernism and several new titles from the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong poetry series: Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia Stephen Bronner To...

April 26, 2012

National Poetry Month: New York in Poetry

April is National Poetry Month, and throughout April we have been posting poems from our poetry titles and from those of our distributed presses. This is our final NaPoMo post.