News

• Book by book: Q&A with Robert Bly[The New York Times]
• Luci Tapahonso named first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation[Indian Country Today]
• Faith, relationships and the role of language: listen to an interview with Marie Howe[American Public Media]
• Poet Billy Collins selected for Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize[Concord Monitor]
• Mojave/Pima Poet Natalie Diaz: From Home to College to Basketball to Europe and Back Again[Indian Country Today]
• America: little-known last stanza of a poem can be read (or sung) as a salute to Boston[The Oregonian]
• Q&A with Kingsley Tufts Award winner: Writing is more about losing the self than finding it.[Indianapolis Monthly]
• Griffin Poetry Prize announces finalists[National Post]
• The art of translation: Making Seamus Heaney recognizable in any language[The Irish Times]
• Winning proves its worth: Sharon Olds book sells out after winning 2013 Pulitzer Prize[The Washington Post]
• Interview with John Ashbery: Stretching the bond between language and communication[The Christian Science Monitor]
• A poem for Boston[NewYorker.com]
• Disturbing the grave of Pablo Neruda, "poet of the eternal present" [The New York Times]
• We all need poetry - even hedge fund managers[NPR]
• Daniel Hoffman, poet laureate versatile in many forms, dies at 89[The New York Times]
• New Mexico-based poet Arthur Sze wins $50,000 Jackson prize[The Washington Post]
• If a poem is art, does intent of the poet matter? How two poems helped launch a school reform movement[The Atlantic]
• Pashto poet gets first Malala Excellence Award[International Herald Tribune]
• Hell in prose and poetry, from Dante to Frost and Roethke[The New Yorker]
• Marie Ponsot Awarded 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize[Poetry Foundation]
• Poetry’s tense relationship with e-readers[The Washington Post]
• Q&A with Claudia Emerson: Poetry is reclamation and restoration—and can be its own present tense[Birmingham Poetry Review]
• Reflecting on women poets and tevolving poetic language[Smithsonian Magazine blog]
• American poet W.S. Merwin awarded Zbigniew Herbert Prize[Polskie Radio]
• University of Denver doctoral candidate wins Yale Series of Younger Poets prize[The New York Times]
• Poet Miller Williams on poetry, country music and how Hank Williams made the connection[Oxford American]
• $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award goes to Marianne Boruch[The Los Angeles Times]
• Q&A with Poet Yehoshua November: Secular audiences often fear religious poetry is too simplistic, or "a mindless surrender"[Jewish Action Magazine]
• Qatar Court Won’t Free Poet but Reduces His Sentence [The New York Times]