British singer and gay icon Elton John has courted controversy this week by claiming in an interview that “Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man.”
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To understand the Hebrew Bible and the book of Jeremiah you need to look at the prophet primarily as a poet, according to David Rosenberg’s new book “A Literary Bible.”
The map on the bedroom wall of every teenage Bilderberger
The underwhelming results of the Copenhagen Accord during last month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark sent me searching my mental files for examples of how art has documented […]
A conversation with the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
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As Poet Laureate, Rita Dove learned that many people are frightened of the subject.
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Rita Dove offers advice for those looking to make a career out of poetry.
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The former Poet Laureate recites one of her latest poems from the collection entitled, “Sonata Mulattica.”
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If her piece on loss and mourning in this week’s New Yorker is evidence, Meghan’s O’Rourke’s next book may be the most powerful reflection on the topic since The Year […]
More than perhaps any other genre, poetry has the ability to unite past and present into a unified experience. Whether drawing from scattered memories of random passersby, the Napoleonic Wars, […]
Exciting news for Gen-Y back-to-the-landers this month. If you went upstate after college instead of to Wall Street, if you’re growing carrots and raising beef to sell at local farmers’ […]
This is a common time of year for Lists. Everyone seems to have one. David Brooks’s Best Essays List ran in today’s New York Times, and almost every other literary publication […]
Who needs proper porn when one can read Chaucer? Both might make us feel good in diverse ways, but assumptions that the afterglow of old poetry is uniquely cerebral are […]
One of the bad things about the Obama administration is that human rights have taken a backseat to more pressing concerns abroad. A case in point was Joseph Biden’s recent […]
Whatever the angle, the media frenzy—such as it is in the poetry world—over the death of Nicholas Hughes is distasteful and irresponsible. Hughes, the son of canonical poets Sylvia Plath […]
There isn’t any data supporting this fact, per se, but it is possible that images of Mario and Pac-Man are as instantly indelible as some of history’s most famous portraits, […]
Elizabeth Alexander on the poet’s duty.
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Just when you thought poetry was dead, Newser today cites a Telegraph story showing that email and social networking is catalyzing a resurgence in that oldest of literary art forms. […]
With the newspaper industry in turmoil and media suffering from what Clay Shirky refers to as “mass amateurization,” it’s not a particularly good time to entangle the New York Times […]
The poet considers race from a linguistic perspective
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The poet cites Adrienne Rich and “the dream of a common language.”
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The poet speaks to the breadth of influences that has created the genre.
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The poet describes how she crafted and read the inaugural poem.
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The poet covers poetry’s dynamics, from graduate to grade school.
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David Orr raised the question in Sunday’s Times Book Review of what constitutes “greatness” in poetry, writing, “our largely unconscious assumptions work like a velvet rope: if a poet looks […]
Inaugural poetess and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale Elizabeth Alexander is sitting down with Big Think today. She helped ring in the Obama presidency with her poem, “Praise Song […]
France, Italy, and Spain have their painters; Germany and Italy have their composers; but few countries can challenge England and America when it comes to poets. Trilingual poet Jorie Graham […]
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Muldoon talks about how meeting the great poet Seamus Heaney.
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