News

• British poet and novelist Barry Cole dies at 77[The Guardian]
• Nancy Cardozo, poet and biographer of Yeats muse Maud Gonne, dies at 94 [The New York Times]
• Q&A with Vijay Sheshadri: On becoming an American, becoming a poet and now a Pulitzer Prize winner[PBS]
• Allen Grossman, poet and Scholar, dies at 82[The New York Times]
• A chat with new Poet Laureate Charles Wright: "I do not know why I am a writer, come to think of it"[The Wall Street Journal]
• Stephen Berg, driving force behind The American Poetry Review, dies at 79[The Philadelphia Enquirer]
• Poetry, who needs it? Children. What if we taught them to read by teaching them to read poems?[The New York Times]
• Charles Wright named U.S. Poet Laureate[The Washington Post]
• Q&A with Henri Cole: Why write? "For the completely selfish pleasure of composition"[The Paris Review]
• Q&A with Paul Muldoon: Poetry too often perceived as too difficult for the common man[timeshighereducation.co.uk]
• Businessman endows Yale poetry chair - and easy access to opera [The New York Times]
• "Wee Poets" celebrates 30 years of televised poetry - written and read by children[San Jose Mercury News]
• The Dark Room Collective: Where black poetry took wing[The New York Times]
• An appraisal of Maya Angelou: "A black woman from a small place who belonged everywhere"[The New York Times]
• The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas, Poet Laureate of Twitter [The New York Times]
• Precision. Restraint. The value of a good noun - Q&A with Irish poet Vona Groarke[Irish Times]
• Tadeusz Różewicz, fierce poetic voice of post-war Poland, dies at 92[The New York Times]
• Roadside poem combats pollution — literally![The New York Times]
• Phillip Larkin fans take note: Whitsun Weddings to be celebrated with 50th anniversary train ride[The Guardian]
• Want to truly understand a poem? Memorize it, Griffin Poetry Prize founder tells students [The Globe and Mail]
• Poetry Foundation honors Nathaniel Mackey with 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; awards University of California Press the first Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism[Poetry Foundation]
• Claudia Rankine Wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize[The New York Times]
• Charles Simic remembers the Great Poets’ Brawl of ’68[New York Review of Books]
• Tadeusz Różewicz, poet of a decimated generation, dies at 92[The Guardian]
• Mervyn Morris named first Jamaican poet laureate since independence[Jamaica Observer]
• Experiencing "found poetry" - have you checked your daily newspaper?[The News Tribune (Tacoma)]
• Korean-American poet Hannah Sanghee Park receives Walt Whitman Award[The Washington Post]
• A blow for Poetry Month - a poetic take on black boxer lands punches with broad appeal[WNPR.org]
• Nina Cassian, Exiled Romanian Poet, dies at 89[The New York Times]
• "3 Sections" by Vijay Seshadri earns 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[Pulitzer.org]