american poetry

In October 1955, Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” publicly for the first time in front of a San Francisco audience that included fellow Beat Generation poets Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and

Yesterday we heard the news that Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on February 22 at the spectacular age of 101.

Are you a poet living in Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, or Michigan?

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY -- A major exhibit and symposium organized by the Vassar College Libraries will mark the centenary of the acclaimed poet Elizabeth Bishop, a 1934 Vassar graduate who earned the Pulitz