Poetry Off the Shelf

Producer Curtis Fox explores the diverse world of contemporary American poetry with readings by poets, interwith critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken ...

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 Bök 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.

Robert Alter on his radical reworking of the book of Psalms

Mary Anne Caws talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E.Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis that first appeared in Poetry magazine.

Mary Anne Caws talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E.Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis that first appeared in Poetry magazine.

Rae Armantrout gets personal without the pronoun.

Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.

The untold story of Czeslaw Milosz's rancor toward a Holocaust hero.

Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.

Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.