Twitter haiku
by Chasya The Guardian is pushing a new trend: delivering bad news via haiku on Twitter. It was only a matter of time before this limited syllable form of poetry and word limited form of social media...
View ArticleKe$ha: A poet for our times
by Lauren Poetry doesn’t often find itself a subject of our blog entries around here, since it’s not within the purview of this agency or most others professionally speaking. And unless we’re talking...
View ArticleA poetry reading by Bill Murray
by Chasya In case you missed it, Bill Murray stopped by the construction site for Poet’s House last week to treat workers to the first poetry reading at the new location. And I thought my love for Bill...
View ArticleThe allusive and elusive Jay-Z
by Lauren As you may recall, I’m a bit of a poetry fan. Truth be told, though, I enjoy breaking apart its rhythms and allusions much more than I ever have any sentiment it’s meant to convey. I like the...
View ArticleTrain of thought echoes in the memory….
by John Saw this notice in the Times today. To quote: “Train of Thought, the program that placed literary quotations from the likes of Kafka and Schopenhauer in the unlikely locale of a packed New York...
View ArticleThe Poem in Your Pocket
April is national poetry month, and since the folks who sponsor it make it ridiculously easy to read more poetry, I’ve signed up for their poem-a-day e-mail. I will also participate in the Poem in Your...
View ArticleThe murderous beats
This past Sunday afternoon, several parents from my son’s preschool organized an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids in Riverside Park near Columbia University. With the park in full bloom and the children...
View ArticlePoetry becoming popular?
A while ago I mentioned the different ways in which authors have been using social media to tell stories. And apparently the same goes for poetry. Check out this extremely interesting piece from the...
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Happy birthday, Byron!
Lord Byron’s graffiti on the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece Ah, Lord Byron. You were only 36 when you died, but you still managed: to write one of the best Romantic poems,...
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Bestselling poetry in motion
It’s not often that you hear about a poetry collection becoming a commercial bestseller, but in the case of Rupi Kaur’s MILK AND HONEY, that’s exactly what’s happened. To me, as much as it’s...
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