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  1. #oscarssowhite
    Watch and Listen As Nick Cannon Unleashes a Semi-Oscar-Related Spoken-Word Poem“Nah, not another trophy rant.”
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  2. Nicki Minaj Reads Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’“Does my sassiness upset you?”
    By E. Alex Jung
  3. jack of all trades (master of one)
    Patti Smith’s Journey to Horses: A TimelineSome of it you read about in Just Kids, some of it you didn’t.
    By Caryn Rose
  4. books
    After 19 Books and a Presidential Bid, Eileen Myles Gets Her DueA punk poet, suddenly inside the canon.
    By Rachel Monroe
  5. Should White Men Stop Writing? A Q&A With Elisa Gabbert“White liberals should be questioning our own motives, and being careful not to dominate the conversation, and taking criticism seriously.”
    By Christian Lorentzen
  6. art
    When John Ashbery Was New York’s Art Critic“The show is like a marvelous overdose of spring tonic. After you come out of it, everything and everybody you see looks like a new percussion instrument.”
    By Claire Voon
  7. dark sparkler
    Amber Tamblyn Explains the Moving Poem She Wrote About Lindsay Lohan“I am giving this back to you to write. This belongs to you.”
    By Lindsey Weber
  8. clear eyes full hearts
    Give In to Tim Riggins–Inspired PoetryFriday Night Lights keeps on giving.
    By Margaret Lyons
  9. celebrities
    Read Kristen Stewart’s Poetry”
And I bellowed and you parked / 
We reached Marfa.”
    By Margaret Lyons
  10. Bo Burnham’s Poetry Book, ‘Egghead,’ Is Out October 1stComedian Bo Burnham is putting out a book of poetry. Called Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone, his first book is set for an October […]
    By Bradford Evans
  11. where brooklyn at?
    Former Mos Def Poetry-Slams the Barclays CenterYasiin Bey hopes for a summit meeting with Jay-Z and Harry Belafonte to discuss the arena’s effect on Brooklyn. 
    By Amos Barshad
  12. francophile
    James Franco Wrote an Inauguration PoemIt’s called “Obama in Asheville.”
    By Amanda Dobbins
  13. francophile
    Poet James Franco Sells Debut Book of PoetryOf course.
    By Jesse David Fox
  14. poetry
    Six Lincoln Limericks to Text Your Loved Ones“There once was a man named Abe Lincoln/ Whose Union was rapidly shrinkin’ … “
    By Amanda Dobbins, Margaret Lyons, and Kyle Buchanan
  15. Tom Hanks Performs a Slam Poem about ‘Full House’ on ‘Fallon’ What do you do when you have a back-to-back Oscar winner on your late night talk show? Ask him to perform a slam poem about Full House, of […]
    By Bradford Evans
  16. casting couch
    Cynthia Nixon to Play Emily DickinsonBut who will play the fly?
    By Amanda Dobbins
  17. obits
    Poet Adrienne Rich Has Died at 82The chronicler of the second wave died at home in California.
    By Jessica Grose
  18. Check Out an Adorable, Poetic Ode to Leonardo of the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesReal or fake (please be real?), this poetic salute to “the smart Ninja Turtle” is one for the history books, or at least This Week in Internet.
    By Eliot Glazer
  19. best of 2011
    David Edelstein’s Favorite Performances From 2011And a few of his worsts, as well.
    By David Edelstein
  20. A Sonnet About Dan Harmon’s Latest Blog PostI have long thought that the ultimate level of success would be to have people write sonnets about your stream-of-consciousness 2:30AM blog […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  21. poetry
    Here Is Salman Rushdie’s Limerick About Kim Kardashian“The marriage of poor kim #kardashian / was krushed like a kar in a krashian.”
    By Kyle Buchanan
  22. clickables
    Hear Nobel Winner Tomas Tranströmer Read and Discuss a PoemOpening line: “In the evening-dark of a place outside New York…”
    By Andre Tartar
  23. clickables
    Read Four Newly Released Shel Silverstein PoemsFrom the artist’s posthumous ‘Every Thing On It.’
    By Ray Rahman
  24. Bill Murray Reads Poetry Bill Murray stopped by the annual Poets House Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge to read a couple of poems by Billy Collins and Cole Porter, […]
    By Adam Frucci
  25. clickables
    Hear Bill Murray Read Poems by Billy Collins and Cole PorterHere’s “Forgetfulness” and “Brush Up.”
    By Amanda Dobbins
  26. clickables
    Read Excerpts From Charlie Sheen’s 1990 Poetry CollectionReal and self-published.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  27. contests
    Vulture’s John Legend and the Roots Contest: We Have a Winner!Read the winning haiku.
    By Amos Barshad
  28. poetry corner
    Marilyn Monroe: Poet“My love sleeps besides me — / in the faint light — I see his manly jaw.”
    By Willa Paskin
  29. exclusive
    James Franco Selects His Favorite Poems“The O’Hara poems are beautiful and deceiving. On one level they feel frivolous, but O’Hara always ties them up with a significant event or line that pulls everything taut..”
    By Brienne Walsh
  30. poetry
    W.S. Merwin Named Poet LaureateHe’s 82.
    By Willa Paskin
  31. books
    Haik U, Glenn Beck: A Database of Glenn Beck–Themed Haiku“And Jesus said to/All his hungry disciples/’Hands off my fish, chumps’”
    By Edith Zimmerman
  32. books
    Read a Letter T.S. Eliot Wrote His 4-Year-Old Nephew“I believe that you are to have a Birthday soon … “
    By Edith Zimmerman
  33. movies
    Read Godzilla Haikus“Civilization / I destroy it to feel like / I’m a part of you.”
    By Edith Zimmerman
  34. kudos
    Broke Writers Rejoice After the 25th Whiting AwardsCrashed cars! Publishers running off solar power! Tennyson quotes!
    By Boris Kachka
  35. poets
    Bono’s Poetry OffendsThis isn’t even the worst part: ‘Elvis white trash / Elvis the Memphis flash / Elvis didn’t smoke hash and woulda been a sissy without Johnny Cash.’
    By Lane Brown
  36. cheek by jowl
    Anderson: Poetry Month Showdown, Herrera vs. KleinzahlerThe thick-mustachioed activist against the grumpy contrarian!
    By Sam Anderson
  37. cheek by jowl
    Anderson: Poetry Month Showdown, Herrera vs. KleinzahlerThe thick-mustachioed activist against the grumpy contrarian!
    By Sam Anderson
  38. bolanopalooza
    Read an Excerpt From Roberto Bolaño’s New Poetry CollectionIf you want a Bolaño book that’s not going to tip your car over, ‘The Romantic Dogs’ has you covered.
    By Sam Anderson
  39. agenda
    D. Nurkse’s Poetry, the Product of Metaphysical BattlesThe ravaged settings in which many of D. Nurkse’s new poems take place…
  40. agenda
    Poet Takes You to Less Than Exotic PlacesHis witty, wise Selected Poems displays Hofmann’s gift for evoking a sense of place.
  41. news reel
    Meryl Streep Rules and Graydon Carter Jabs ‘Vanity Fair’ at Poetry Bash“We don’t do contemporary poets at the Academy of American Poets,” said Streep. “Because if you say one name, then somebody else has their nose out of joint. “
  42. ranters and ravers
    How Dirty Is That Auden Poem That Was Too Dirty for the ‘Times Book Review’?It is really, really, really, really dirty. So we’re reprinting the entire thing.
  43. agenda
    Poet Julia Hartwig Links Freedom With Having an Iron WillJulia Hartwig is a poet too little known in America: Countryman Czeslaw Milosz called her “the grande dame of Polish poetry.”
  44. apropos of nothing
    New Poetry Editor at ‘The New Yorker’ Still Hates Your PoetryPaul Muldoon replaces Alice Quinn.
  45. obit
    Accomplished Poet Phil Rizzuto Dies at 89The Yankees shortstop was also the creator of fine found poetry, thanks to a 1993 book.
  46. apropos of nothing
    CableVerse: Discovery Channel Edition
  47. apropos of nothing
    CableVerse
  48. news reel
    BEA Buzz Books: Foreskins, Frank Lloyd Wright, and … Poetry?