Creation Chained to a Stunned Repose by Daniel Tobin

I well remember the first time I went to the Poetry Bookshop. It was in July, 1913...

Claude McKay offered in Harlem Shadows a genuinely new sensibility in African American and Black Caribbean arts...

Whatever my own hesitations, I usually end up challenging the idea that there are things we must not write about, for fear of giving offense...

‘And’ is superfluous, omissible. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the regulated couplets of Tang poetry...

Paris wasn’t then what it is now...

To experience a version of the cool exhilaration of a mid-twentieth-century American jazz night, one might start by listening to an iconic Miles Davis recording...

I don’t catch Phillis Wheatley’s joke at first...

I’ve always loved Jim Harrison’s poetry—so full of itself, so direct and hungry and angered and awed...

Affiliation is a geography of bleeding boundaries and abrupt junctures...

Bishop’s persona is part she-moose, part bus; part warrior-fish, part oily vessel; part pastoral idyll, and part atomic bomb...

thank you for apple peelings in the wastepaper basket...

Inside St Mary’s Church in Gdańsk stands a Clock of Everything. At fourteen metres, it was the tallest clock ever built when Hans Düringer completed it in 1470...

It's poetry where the Punk finds their way out of the mosh pit and into the solo business of writing poems to make sense of it all...

Have they clocked our nocturnal ways that bite at kleptomaniac clockhands in our capitals?

The first person to be photographed was a man having his boots cleaned. There were others in the same street, but they moved and became invisible...

This essay considers some reasons for lyric’s return in black British poetics by first taking a broad look at the field, and then by attending to the work of several poets writing since the 1990s but publishing most visibly since the millennium...

Well I grew up in the New Zealand of country pubs and sheep and macrocarpas; and beyond it, we were told, was a planet structured around the British Empire turning into the Commonwealth turning into... something else...

Carolyn Kizer, feminist poet and founding editor of Poetry Northwest, became the first Program Director for Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966...

Dynamics and architecture: the very attributes required for making an Internet, a universe, an emergent God, a creation, certainly a poem...