12/30/03

The Daily Star: A peep into Rumi's treasure

Kuensel: A yak herder and a yak song

Stuff: The Marlborough Express: Local poet more famous abroad than at home

Independent.co.uk: Sylvia Plath film has lost the plot, says her closest friend

Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Sask.-born poet dead at 65

The Toronto Star: Death, aging haunt Robert Creeley's poetry

allAfrica.com: Can Any One Speak of Freedom in Nigeria? Asks Poet, Ogaga Ifowodo (2)

The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: 500 years later, Nostradamus is still king of the quatrains

telegraph.co.uk: The barking bards

The Palm Beach Post: Angling verse

12/23/03

The Scotsman: Who invented Santa?

The Illinois Leader: General Borling's "The Other Christmas"

The Asian News: Were these her final words of despair?

The New York Times: 'Walking to Martha's Vineyard': Poems of Self-Destruction

Evansville Courier & Press: Poetry Magazine struggles to spend $100 million gift

Anchorage Daily News: Sexton casts familiar scenes in fresh light

The Guardian: Madder than madness: The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson is an unjustly neglected body of work, says Ian Sansom

PopMatters: Reading Remains

KurdishMedia: Kurds take part in the International PEN Writers' conference

The Daily Star: Which politics for Arab poetry?

12/16/03

Toronto Star: It's high time we put reason to rhyme

The Guardian: Fadwa Tuqan: Palestinian poet who captured her nation's sense of loss and defiance

ThisWeek Community Newspapers: Bishop Watterson High School Student's poem part of national journal

the setonian: Reading raises money for poet's surgery

The Globe and mail: Soul training: For poet David Whyte and the executives who hire him, work is a 'pilgrimage of identity,' he tells Alexandra Gill

Chicago Tribune: State's latest laureate crafts verse in a garage

The Japan Times: Soldier's diary returns to family after 60 years

Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.: Remembering an Urdu poet on his 200th birthday

Psychology Today: Muse or Ruse?

The New York Times: The Lairs of Russian Literary Lions

12/09/03

The Guardian: JM Coetzee's Nobel lecture

zoomata: Italians Clear Dante's 'Cannibal' Count, Rebury Him

24 Hour Museum: Meet The Real Ted Hughes At The British Library

The Oregonian: Poetry: Lyric lines, the shape of sentences and the spiral of the imagination

Anchorage Daily News: Olena Kalytiak Davis drawn to wordplay

telegraph.co.uk: 'It is better to be forgotten'

The Guardian: A poet true to himself: For Wendy Cope, the poems of George Herbert - 'expressions of Anglican piety at its best' - continue to inspire

The Advertiser: Young poet determined to publish

Star-Telegram: The world through prose-colored glasses

The Guardian: A Romantic journey: What was it about Goslar, a small German town, that inspired Wordsworth in the bitter winter of 1798 to begin 'The Prelude'? Duncan Wu spent last Christmas following in the poet's footsteps to find out

12/02/03

Independent Media Review and Analysis: MEMRI: Saudi Columnist: 'We Have Bred Monsters ... We Are the Problem and Not America'

Sebastian Sun: Persian poet holds one key to a happy life

The Guardian: 'Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought': An invitation to the palace to accept a New Year honour... you must be joking. Benjamin Zephaniah won't be going. Here he explains why

The Anchorage Daily News: Feelings into verse

Discovery Channel: Discovering Dante's Damsel in Distress

About Poetry: Two Poems for Gwendolyn Brooks

telegraph.co.uk: Ezra Pound was more guilty than Haw-Haw

The Guardian: Is there still life on Mars?: Christopher Reid's new collection, For and After, contains a clutch of very good poems, but the dazzle and profundity of his earlier work have gone, says John Redmond

Health Behavior News Service: Research Seeks Answer to a Poet Dying Young

p2pnet: Will books become obsolete?

11/25/03

CanadianChristianity.com: A Canadian tribute to Holocaust children

Washington Post: Chile: Author, Author: A Literary Tour Of Santiago

The Kansas City Star: Hecht's Later Poems a brilliant gathering

The Daily Star: Indian Poetry in English: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

The Guardian: A spring in her heels: David Morley hails the playful intelligence of Pauline Stainer's The Lady and the Hare

The St. Augustine Record: Jo Anne Engelbert gets award for the translations of works by Honduran poet Roberto Sosa

The Boston Globe: Art, beauty, and other obsolete ideas

FrontPage Magazine: Drawing Strength From Gabriel

New York Times: Hugh Kenner, Commentator on Literary Modernism, Dies at 80

Billings Gazette: Hayes: Tasty Thanksgiving ideas come from poetry

Special Section: Iraq, USA, the Occupation of Poetry

Dissident Voice: Poetry in Turbulent Times: The Role of Poetry in Political Struggles in the Muslim World

Democracy Now: From the Persian Gulf to the Invasion – Poet, Activist, Essayist and Teacher June Jordan Speaks About the U.S. and Iraq in 1991

The Baltimore Sun's SunSpot.net: Words Without Borders - making the U.S. cosmopolitan: National myopia about other cultures' literature damages this country

Independent Media Institute's AlterNet.org: Truth in the Hands of Artists

The Christian Science Monitor: In chaotic new era, Iraqi artists seek aid

11/18/03

The Baltimore Sun's SunSpot.net: Italian landscape calls forth emotional memories: Vivid description, quiet drama mark Dave Smith's work

Xinhua News Agency's Xinhuanet.com: Chrysanthemum - flower of honour

The Chronicle Review: Writing Like Crazy: a Word on the Brain

Reporters Without Borders: Open letter to the heads of state about the human rights situation in Cuba

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Between the lines, with poet David Sofield

allAfrica.com: Is Hausa Poetry in Decline?

Times Daily: Teacher, poet laureate Helen Friedman Blackshear dies at 92

The Guardian: Joking apart: Susan Hill celebrates the poetry of Charles Causley - Cornishman and friend - who died this month

telegraph.co.uk: Monty Python's death of Chaucer

Boston Globe: The power of the 'negative muse'

11/16/03 (Special Sunday Edition)

Fresh articles about poetry from About.com

Piñero & the Poet's Life: Michael Salinger interviews Dahveed Ben Israel

Poems For Peace: As war commences again...

Poetry Currents: Japan: Marcellus Nealy: Light Walker

Edgar Allan Poe: Although not born in Baltimore, he called it his home.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000): African American Poet; Illinois Poet Laureate; Pulitzer Prize Winner

Thanksgiving in the Movies: Myth vs. Reality

Maya Angelou: Extraordinary Human Being

Maya Angelou: Her Works

The Illustrators of Christmas: Victorian Realizations of Christmas

The Illustrators of Christmas: The Birth of the Modern Christmas Card

The Illustrators of Christmas: America's Modern Christmas Card

11/11/03

Backstage.com: Bob Kingdom: Embodying Dylan Thomas

icWales: Dylan Thomas tricks BBC from the grave

The Washington Blade: Gay between the lines: Rick Whitaker’s entertaining book of literary criticism looks at the impact of gay authors writing from the closet.

The Jerusalem Post: A sort of rapture

The Mercury News: Literary luminaries write court on behalf of teen poet

The Washington Post: Ode, the Agony! A Poet, Her Work Are Parted

The Baltimore Sun's Sunspot.net: Lieder: So easy to love

allAfrica.com: Islamic Clerics Ban Poetry for Women

telegraph.co.uk: Charles Causley

The Daily Star: The power and beauty of Al-Mutanabbi: Writer’s theme was nexus between poetry, politics

Special Veterans & Remembrance Day Section:

The New York Times: What World War I's Greatest Poet Would Say About Hiding Our War Dead

The Guardian: Visions from the trenches

Montreal Gazette: New museum to immortalize poet: Couple's gift to new institution allowed them to name special gallery after McCrae

The Guardian: By catboat to New York: George Oppen's commitment to linguistic truth was impressive, says David Herd, after reading his New Collected Poems

McAlester News Capital & Democrat: Veteran recalls WWII feats

11/04/03

The Guardian: A twist in the tale: The trauma of his boyhood experiences in a blacking factory has long been seen as crucial to Charles Dickens's career, but newly discovered early work challenges the legend

The Moscow Times Metropolis: Russian Poets in Israel Learn to Speak in Tongues

Daily Trojan: Literary masters among us

The Guardian: Essential but unlovely: The publication of Ted Hughes's Collected Poems shows both his genius and his failings, says Sean O'Brien

The Daily Star: Al-Husseiniyya: performance and poets: Story of the death of Hussein has many tellers

CJAD 800: Well-loved Russian poet Rasul Gamzatov dies at 80 in Moscow hospital

Independent.co.uk: UA Fanthorpe: Life of the English poet

The Guardian: Something beautiful I once knew: James Fenton defends the reputation of Ezra Pound

The Daily Star: Indian Poetry in English: Daruwalla

The Casper Star-Tribune: Anger, sadness fill campus as students return to school after deadly California wildfires

10/28/03

Reporters without borders: Government urged to stop arrests, murders and kidnappings of journalists

Slate: Low Barometer by Robert Bridges

The Anchorage Daily News: Well-rounded in life and in writing

The Baltimore Sun's SunSpot.net: Inevitably, we become aware of our mortality

The Sydney Morning Herald: War poem echoes down the years

CounterPunch: Plotting Pre-emptive Strikes: "The Readiness is All"

Outlookindia.com: Poet Bon Viveur: Wine, women and . . . mangoes: these were a few of Ghalib's many loves

ic Wales: How Dylan's life and wealth were hijacked

telegraph.co.uk: Beryl Graves

Guardian Unlimited: Bags of enlightenment

10/21/03

Guardian Unlimited: Fears as Nepalese disappear

Slate: Man Out of Time: John Clare was once as famous a poet as John Keats. What happened?

Guardian Unlimited Books: Sharp seeing, deep feeling: A sympathetic biography of John Clare by Jonathan Bate puts his tragic life in perspective, says Andrew Motion

The New York Review of Books: The Outsider's Art

USA Today: Excerpt from 'Her Husband'By Diane Middlebrook: Introduction: Becoming Her Husband

NPR: Remembering Sylvia Plath: New Works Recall Life and Legacy of Confessional Poet

ABC Central Victoria: Movement at the station classroom

The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus: America's poet laureate has her own style

The Washington Post: Derek Walcott: A Poet's Ode to St. Lucia

The New York Review of Books: Founding The New York Review: Two Letters from Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop

10/14/03

Guardian Unlimited: Lost in London

The Washington Post: Whitman Sleuth Digs Up Gems in Pages of History

Slate: Bad to the Bone: An anthology of verse offers up the banal, the bathetic, the bloated.

The Baltimore Sun: SunSpot: Is the degredation of language destroying culture in the U.S.?

Anchorage Daily News: A fair dose of good poetry

The Times-Picayune: J is for justice: 'The Lowercase Jew' gives us poet Rodger Kamenetz's finely crafted view of history, identity and humanity

Guardian Unlimited: Triumph for 'breakfast' poet and a comic rival for Blake's Jerusalem

The New York Times: A Shoe That Fits: A Bohemian Poet's Life

Times of Oman: A tribute to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Daily Times: Purple Patch: Towards the splendid city

10/07/03

Sky News: Parents Release Poems

The New Yorker: The Story of Himself

CounterPunch: Rhymsters and Revolutionaries: Joe Hill and the IWW

The Arizona Republic: Rhyme and reason: Poetry is gaining in popularity; several writers offer ideas why

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Celebration puts state poet's work in spotlight

Deseret News: Write of passage: Homes of authors bring literary pilgrims to Massachusetts towns

The Spectator: Slogging to Byzantium

The Louisville Scene: Readings, anthology celebrate poet Gwendolyn Brooks

The Daily Star: Performance integral to story of Hussein’s death: Work wrapped up in religious duty

The Oregonian: Dickinson: eccentric, enigmatic, intensely original

09/30/03

Arab News: East Meets West: Arab Cafes in Paris

The New York Times: Beat Mystique Endures at a San Francisco Landmark

The Daily Star: Cultural Construct: Women in Bangla Literature

Anchorage Daily News: Shattered sonnets: Award-winning poet releases new volume, reflects on the process

Guardian Unlimited: Moving Voice

Metroactive Arts: Visual Poetry: Iranian artist Seyed Alavi illuminates language at SSU

The Japan Times: Garden Paths: Koishikawa Korakuen: Lush 'theme park' of the shoguns

CounterPunch: Pardon Mzwakhe Mbuli!: Turn It Up

Daily Times: Op-ed: Power of Cuba’s powerless

The Washinton Post: Pablo Neruda, Shaping the World With His Words

09/27/03

George Plimpton has died

telegraph.co.uk: George Plimpton

Washington Post: George Plimpton Dies at 76; Writer Lived Out Fantasies

New York Times: George Plimpton, Urbane and Witty Writer, Dies at 76

09/23/03

Pravda.RU: An autumn of inspiration

The New York Times: 'The Owner of the House': Allegories in Suburbia

telegraph.co.uk: The singer's dance of death

SunSpot.net: An ancient art stays current: Award: Artists who have kept a centuries-old tradition of oral poetry alive among the West's Basque immigrants receive national recognition.

The Guardian: Voices heard abroad (also see the poetry society's The Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation 2003)

Billings Gazette: Lodge Grass students to read poems at Smithsonian

The Plain Dealer: Orchestra opens season with powerful 'War Requiem'

The Capital Times: Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins will be at Book Festival

telegraph.co.uk: Michelangelo love poems in print after 450 years

SunSpot.net: Dark Visions: BMA exhibit shares the morbid and magical works of French artists inspired by Edgar Allen Poe

09/21/03 (Special Sunday Edition)

#10 Antoni Breschi (Belfast Telegraph: Italian musician 'Irish in spirit': Poet-pianist Breschi becomes O'Breskey for a night)

#9 Exene Cervenka (Metroactive Music: Wild Gifts: Punk goddess Exene Cervenka marks the spot)

#8 Leonard Cohen (The Edmonton Journal: Edmonton celebrates Cohen's life and work)

#7 Johnny Cash (Country Music Television: Johnny Cash Remembered as Friend, Family Man)

#6 Warren Zevon (The Village Voice: The Poet of Gower Avenue Winds Down His Dirty Life and Times: Warren Zevon, 1947?2003)

#5 Ani DiFranco (Fairfield County Weekly: To Paint a Protest: Activism is more than a sentiment)

#4 Pankaj Udhas (Times of Oman: Pankaj Udhas to regale ghazal-lovers tomorrow

#3 Eminem (BBC News: Eminem 'scared' by global fame)

#2 Bob Dylan (Taipei Times: Academic disappears up his 'catharshole' over Dylan)

#1 Banjo Paterson (iafrica.com: Matilda to waltz at RWC)

The Sydney Morning Herald: Who writes the songs?

09/16/03

The St. Petersburg Times: The Rest: Engineer Preserving the Voices of Writers for All Time

SunSpot.net: A modern Falstaff molds Mids' minds: Professor: Doc White takes an unconventional approach to teaching Shakespeare at the Naval Academy.

The Boston Globe: Latin lingo: Spanglish is everywhere now, which is no problema for some, but a pain in the cuello for purists

United Press International: Feature: Raucous history of free press

International Herald Tribune: When a bad review does some good

Israel21c: Israel's national theater takes to New York stage

Town Crier North Toronto: The craft of poetry

Newsday.com: Ground Zero Readings

Poynter Online: Speak Up! I Can't Read You

MSNBC: Purgatory, In All its Nuance: Our obsession with Dante is ongoing. The latest addition is Anthony Esolen’s reader-friendly translation of Purgatory for the Modern Library. How does it measure up?

09/09/03

The New Yorker: To Go On and Live

The New York Times: Alan Dugan, 80, Barbed Poet of Daily Life's Profundities, Dies

Telegraph: C H Sisson

Alameda Times-Star: Poet Reed conjures musical magic in Japan

The Korea Herald: Poetic memoirs, changing times

CNN: Spanish poetry icon to be exhumed

The Buffalo News: Spreading the word

Home Educator's Family Times: Freeing the Writer Within

Guardian Unlimited: Lamb had a little Mary

The New York Times: Not Molière! Ah, Nothing Is Sacred

09/03/03

Beliefnet: Quest Is on to Find Sacred Buddhist Texts

Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Library director works to save documents on Civil War poet-priest

Telegraph: Rollie McKenna

Telegraph: However, thank you for your interest

The Independent: Worse for verse as young poets get the chop

The Capital Times: Independent bookselling really does matter

The Indian Express: For one Delhi evening, poetry over politics

The Toronto Star: Covering early Canada in footsteps of Berton

The Daily Star: Al-Hilaliyya: the greatest and most popular epic: A poem to learn from

The New Yorker: The Ecstasist

08/26/03 (Extra)

Three Poets Killed in Iraq

North Jersey Media Group: Dream job ends in tragedy

Sioux City Journal: Mason City native among Baghdad bombing victims

The Mercury News: Ex-Aptos resident is slain in Iraq

08/26/03

The Daily Times: PURPLE PATCH: In Search of the Present

The Daily Times: PURPLE PATCH: Tradition and Individual Talent

The Daily Star: The creation of the tribe in imagination

Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Stuck on words: Lee Tonouchi coaxes vibrant poetry from his students at Kapiolani Community College

Guardian Unlimited: Thrown by the Hail Mary pass

Guardian Unlimited: Who's afraid of Sylvia Plath?

Guardian Unlimited: A vituoso muse

Kathimerini: Poetry and music are brought together in one performance

The New Yorker: The Gardener

The New York Times: Haroldo de Campos, 73, Form-Bending Poet, Dies

08/19/03

Utusan Malaysia Online: Indian director plans $25 million film on Persian poet Rumi

Peoples Review: Achieving peace through literature

The New Indian Express: Varsity's English courses to have Hindi films, PM's poems

The Canadian Press: Poet C.K. Williams reaches to roots in anger and politics in new volume

openDemocracy: Singing Iraq: poets in conversation

The Washington Post: Art From the Ashes: After Fear's Reign, a Flowering of Ideas

NWA News: James Whitehead, UA Professor and Writer, Dies at 67

allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Teachers' Union Rewards Young Poets

The Sun News: Strand poet on fast track to riches

NBC 17: NC Arts Council Receives 29 Nominations For Poet Laureate

08/12/03

Nation Online: [note: Entertainment] Mapanje launches new writing series

The Electronic Herald: Edinburgh eyes up literary title

Independent: Welsh pub helps solve T S Eliot's religious riddle

NPR: Armchair Traveler: W.S. Merwin

Oregon Daily Emerald: Virtues of poetry reflect all existence

Telegraph: News: F T Prince

The Guardian: Duchess of scandal

Record-Journal: Artist loves to paint while on the go everywhere

Stuff: US seeks better care for jailed Cuban dissidents

The Oregonian: A grown-up's garden of verse

08/05/03

News24: Mbuli gets a taste of freedom

GoMemphis: Robert Lowell, unquestioned giant of 20th Century verse, leaves this ungainly burden - are we worthy?

Tallahassee Democrat: Literary giant is sleeping no more

The Sun News: New poet laureate plans arts programs

New Zealand News: Trapped by flawed files

The Daily Star: Tagore and some Nobel laureates

The Oregonian: Excelling with narrative poetry

Telegraph: Wales: Walking backwards into Llareggub

Phayul.com: Three repressed Chinese writers win prestigious international awards

KnightRidder Washington Bureau: Moscow artists' oasis a victim of rich Russians' land-grab storm

07/29/03

Sports Illustrated: Dennehy's family, friends now look for full story

Portland Press Herald: Through the eyes of Longfellow

The New York Times: Ezra Pound, Musical Crackpot

Lowell Sun: Beat author, Lowell legend and bobblehead doll?

Payvand's Iran News: Iranian Writer Honored with Prestigious Award: Ismail Khoi Receives Hellman/Hammett Grant

07/25/03

Sunday Herald: Forgotten: the poet who most inspired Burns

NY Newsday: The Doomed Poet Underlining All Her Words

BBC News: Somali poet marches for peace

BBC News: Choir remembers poets' deaths

Cape Gazette: Christina Weaver finds her passion in photography, poetry

The News-Sentinel: Local poet sorts out life with rhymes, structures

The New York Times: Josephine Jacobsen's Legacy: The Physical Thrill of Poetry

Herald Sun: Fowler revival poetry in motion

New Scientist: Poetry website goes from bad to verse