Poetry Corner

Editors at the now-venerable, always lively Cortland Review noticed a good number of sonnets and sonnet-like poems in their submissions pile last year and decided to do something about it:…

Read full article at The Cortland Review: All Sonnets for Winter

Pascale Petit, French/Welsh/Latin American poet, essayist & translator living in London, is beginning her term as judge for the InterBoard Poetry Competition this month, and your poetry guides have put…

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Poetry Guide Bob Holman recently shone his spotlight back over the year 2006 in poetry. Contained in his survey was a great reading list of all the best poetry books…

Read full article at Poetry Picks: The Best Books of 2006

In our 10 years (!) on the Web, your About Poetry guides have posted innumerable varieties of poetry news, interviews, essays, tips & tidbits, memorials & reminiscences, but we?ve also…

Read full article at Updated Index of Our Library of Poems

Our entries have gone to the InterBoard Poetry Community editors for the first competition of the new year, and we hope all our readers agree that these poems, all by…

Read full article at Our Forum?s Envoys to the January IBPC

Just in time for the turning of the old year, IBPC judge David Kirby has issued his choices of the winning poems in December 2006 competition — and while none…

Read full article at Winners chosen in the December InterBoard Poetry Competition

Bob Holman rounds out his review of poetry in 2006 with capsule reviews of books from Julie Sheehan, Patricia Spears Jones, Robert Creeley, Alice Notley, Jack Wiler, Elizabeth Bishop, Alicia…

Read full article at A Roundup of the Best of the Rest of 2006

2006, Good Year, Poetry… As we approach its end, Bob Holman shines his spotlight back across the year, from NextWave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to YouTube, Grammy nominations,…

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Book of the Year? Folks, may I direct your attention to Ms. Patricia Smith?s Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffeehouse Press)…. Her most recent book was 13 years ago, but the…

Read full article at Poetry Book of the Year: Teahouse of the Almighty, by Patricia Smith

We?ve chosen a few more classics to add to our collection of Christmas poems for your holiday reading & reflection, by Robert Herrick, Sir Walter Scott, and G.K. Chesterton. Enjoy!…

Read full article at Poems for Christmas