Back in April, I wrote this post about a Poetry Magazine issue where Dana Gioia and August Kleinzahler engaged in a colorful exchange over Garrison Keillor's new anthology, Good Poems. It turns out, according to poet Rita Dove in her letter to the editor at Poetry this month, the exchange wasn't so colorful after all ( Read more... )

Here's an essay excerpted from a book by James Longenbach called "Resistance to Poetry" now posted on Poetry Daily. Poetry Daily is my home page and it's not a bad one to have, if you want a constant reminder of poetry in your life. You don't have to read every day, but there's a different poem every day, in case you do. I haven't finished the ( Read more... )