April 11, 2018
Marty Skoble on Why Poetry Matters
(Photo Credit: Noah Davis) For National Poetry Month, I spoke to Marty Skoble, the brilliant man who “teaches” poetry to the students (from lower school to high school) at Saint […]
April 30, 2017
To All The Failed Poems
A failed poem is a flying car that the poet herself would bet against, a free pass to tinker and woe. Say she gets electrocuted, slips on oil-slick. Say an […]
April 12, 2012
Mix Tape: Mellow Yellow Smellow
Who said it, James Joyce or Kool Keith? (“One is the most innovative writer of the 20th century, the other is James Joyce.”) Philip Larkin once said, “Deprivation is for […]
April 5, 2012
Mix Tape: Billy Collins and a Talking Dog
Billy Collins plays himself in a PBS cartoon—one about a talking dog—to celebrate National Poetry Month. But if talking dogs and former poet laureates aren’t your bag, the Academy of […]
April 30, 2010
A Poem in My Mailbox, A Family of Writers
Today I wrote my last postcard poem. All month, in celebration of National Poetry Month, a group of Kundiman poets have been writing a poem a day. We write a […]