This week Barnstorm poetry presents three more poems chosen by three more dextrous minds of the editorial staff. Enjoy them, enjoy yourself, enjoy the pillows under your head, and the...
After a year hiatus, "Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious" is back just in time for National Poetry Month. April is the (cruel) month where we celebrate the first nuanced thaw...
In honor of National Poetry Month, here are 5 books I've recently gotten my greedy little fingers and curious eyes on. I haven't been this excited about a batch...
ON SICKNESS AND GOOD POETRY Why do poets crank out some of their best work when they are ill or watching a loved one battle illness? Maybe it's the urge...
Poems For My TV Heroines In honor of Veronica Mars becoming a movie, I've curated a poem for each of my all-time favorite TV ladies. Connie Britton as Tami Taylor,...
William Carlos Williams + Muriel Rukeyser In [Imagined] Conversation Poets are in constant dialogue with one another: the living to the living, the living to the dead. We dedicate poems...
Allen Ginsberg at his 39th birthday party. This is what AWP will be like. Tribute to the late, great Adrienne Rich featuring Melissa Hammerle, Marie Howe, Kimiko Hahn, Kathleen Graber,...
8 Great Poetry Readings In Pinsky's famous book The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, he declares that poetry “is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art. The...
Revolutionary Time Capsule: Coming of Age and African-American Womanhood in Sister Sonia Sanchez's A BLUES BOOK FOR BLUE BLACK MAGICAL...
In honor of Valentine's Day, I have curated some offbeat, surprising love poems for you, dear readers....
Whenever I open up a new book of poetry these days, I seem to find a pig poem. It is a well-loved topic of...
The Art of Distraction So often, when our attention spans aren't what we'd like them to be (a possible side effect of living in cities, according to this new study,...