Salon limerick contest
The poets are getting cranky
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Salon limerick contest
Readers' rhymes on the campaign
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Salon limerick contest
Poets take on skinny-dipping celebrities and politicians
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Limerick contest winners
Salon readers greeted the limerick contest with an outpouring of nonsense verse. Here are a few favorites
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Introducing the Salon limerick contest!
Write some doggerel. We'll publish our favorites
Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 4:17 PM UTC 28News Limerick Contest, Poetry
Shakespeare’s sonnets on an iPad
Touch Press has released a magnificent new app based on the poems
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 4:12 PM UTCEntertainment The Chimerist
Make kids memorize poetry
An old-fashioned educational practice may be set for a comeback
Wednesday, Jun 13, 2012 2:00 AM UTC 44Entertainment Poetry, Education, Editor's Picks
When actors read poetry
A new app puts Dominic West, Ralph Fiennes and W.H. Auden in your pocket
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:00 AM UTCEntertainment The Chimerist, Poetry
Gunter Grass was right
His controversial poem about Israel may have lacked elegance, but it was also a dire warning about war with Iran
Saturday, Apr 14, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 200News Germany, Israel, Poetry
Adrienne Rich: Moral compass
The late poet's work explored everything from feminism to the Vietnam War
Thursday, Mar 29, 2012 9:58 PM UTCEntertainment R.I.P., Poetry
It’s time to Occupy Poetry
Merry pranksters call the Poetry Foundation elitist and beholden to Prozac cash. Are they right, or just annoying?
Sunday, Nov 13, 2011 5:00 PM UTC 25Entertainment Poetry, Occupy Wall Street
Who is Tomas Transtromer?
"Scandinavia's greatest living poet" won the 2011 Nobel Prize in literature. Here's what you need to know about him
Thursday, Oct 6, 2011 1:07 PM UTCEntertainment Poetry
Meet America’s next poet laureate
Philip Levine will follow in the footsteps of Lowell, Bishop, Frost and Wilbur
Wednesday, Aug 10, 2011 9:01 PM UTC 19Entertainment Poetry, Books
In which we play phone-a-poet
Heather Christle will read her work to anyone who calls. We found out what happens if you pick up the phone
Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 8:01 PM UTCEntertainment Poetry, Books
“The Waste Land”: T.S. Eliot takes the app store
Old, difficult and unsexy, a 20th-century masterpiece becomes the best example yet of how to make a digital book
Wednesday, Jun 15, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 33Entertainment E-books, Poetry, Books
Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC
The influential poet was 62
Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:18 PM UTC 24News Poetry, Music
Rick Santorum disowns campaign slogan when told a gay liberal poet came up with it
"Fighting to Make America America Again" is a bit too close to Langston Hughes for the candidate's comfort
Friday, Apr 15, 2011 8:30 PM UTC 91Politics Rick Santorum, War Room
Modern poetry made less terrifying
Critic David Orr explains the mysteries and marvels of contemporary verse and the people who write it
Wednesday, Apr 6, 2011 12:30 AM UTC 26Entertainment Poetry, Books
“Poetry”: An unlikely masterpiece from Korea
A heartbreaking fable about a fading grandmother, a dead teenager and a poetry class is 2011's best film so far
Saturday, Feb 12, 2011 2:30 AM UTCEntertainment Poetry, Our Picks, Movies
“Howl”: James Franco soars as legendary Beat poet
A lovely and strange docudrama about Allen Ginsberg flies with the angels and carouses in the gutter
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