One would imagine that we”ve read all the poems that a well-loved and well-known poet like Robert Frost ever wrote, but a University of Virginia graduate student has proven that assumption wrong. UVA student Robert Stilling discovered a handwritten copy of the unpublished Frost poem in a copy of Frost”s second collection of poetry, North [...]

…or Something Like It is the very appropos title of a new book of poetry written by members of the St. James Drop-In Center in Montreal. Having put in my time working in a homeless shelter with a drop-in center, this story from www.hour.ca caught my eye. I”ve seen other projects that gave those “marginalized” [...]

I spent some time this morning dropping back in on folks I”ve written about in the past thanks to Frank Wilson at BooksInq, who graciously helped put out the word about Carlos Contreras, the New Mexico teacher looking for poems to hand out to his students. The followup on that – Carlos is still looking, [...]

In the bustle of the past week, this story escaped me. I saw it and read it early in the week, and tucked it away for later, then completely forgot about it till I was poking through the latest poetry news. Reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on September 6 is this little tidbit about a [...]

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More evidence that poetry is regaining its importance in today”s world – poet Maya Angelou will be hosting her own syndicated satellite radio show this fall. Angelou has been signed by the Oprah [...]