A very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem.

How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.

Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.

How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.

Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage.

Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.

Eleanor Wilner on species pity and political power run amok.

Christian Boumlk performs the Dada sound-poetry behind the Talking Heads.

Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine's poems.

Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.

Al Filreis brings Dial-a-Poem back to life at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.

John Surowiecki talks about why his 2004 poem "The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats" sounds like it was written yesterday.