Dec 31 Boise Poet Karena Youtz on ‘Dead Art’ of Poetry (Hint: It’s Not Dead) By Margaret Myers Poet Karena Youtz shares her most recent collection of verses,"The Shape is Space," in the latest in a NewsHour series profiling poets around the world. Continue reading
Dec 31 Karena Youtz Reads ‘Disrupted Motion’ and ‘Public Fruit’ By newshourpoetry Karena Youtz is a poet who lives and writes in Boise, Idaho. She also writes lyrics for her husband Doug Martsch, lead singer for the Boise-based indie rock band Built to Spill. Continue reading
Dec 27 Weekly Poem: ‘Burning the Christmas Greens’ By Tom LeGro Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. Continue reading
Dec 20 Weekly Poem: ‘The New Intelligence’ By Tom LeGro Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the… Continue reading
Dec 17 Conversation: Patti Smith By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to rock legend Patti Smith, whose memoir, "Just Kids," won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Continue reading
Dec 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Disrupted Motion’ Karena Youtz is a poet who lives and writes in Boise, Idaho. She also writes lyrics for her husband Doug Martsch, lead singer for the Boise-based indie rock band Built to Spill. Early next year, a collection called "Transfer Tree"… Continue reading
Dec 10 Friday’s NewsHour: Rap Reconsidered for New Scholarly Anthology A new work of scholarship, "The Anthology of Rap," recently published by Yale University Press, offers a look at the art form on its own terms: a collection of rap lyrics, offered up like lyric poetry, from the last twenty… Continue reading
Dec 09 Translator Brings Poetry of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to U.S. Ahead of the Friday ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the absent (and imprisoned) Liu Xiaobo, Graywolf Press announces the future publication of a collection of his works, translated into English by Jeffrey Yang. Continue reading
Dec 06 Weekly Poem: ‘The Nomad Flute’ By Tom LeGro U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin reads "The Nomad Flute."… Continue reading