A Model for the Writing Life
Bassini Apprenticeships offer “lab experience” for writers
Penn Poet Wins a Marshall
Joshua Bennett C’10 wins Marshall Scholarship
I’ve Never Been in Paris
Poetry by Stephen Krewson
Feet Last
From Norman MacAfee C’65’s Selected Poems
Lady Marilyn’s Wing
In much of her own work, the poet Marilyn Nelson channels African-American history. As the founder of Soul Mountain Retreat, an artists’ colony in rural Connecticut, she is nurturing the next generation of writers.
The Revolution Will Not Be Canonized
Parsing the politics of—and against—modern American poetry.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2008
Prisoners, Poems, and Principles
Why is attorney Marc Falkoff representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay and publishing a book of their poetry?
Out of Armenia
Poems political and personal by Gregory Djanikian C’71.
Reflections in a Poetic Eye
Remembering Objectivist poet Karl Rakosi SW’40
The Quality of Heaven
The words of William Carlos Williams at Kelly Writers House
Honoring a Hometown Hero (and Poetic Genius)
Hometown honors William Carlos Williams
Poetry in (Sound-Wave) Motion
Odes and iPods
Kulchur and Politics
Loving Ezra Pound
Briefly Noted
Darkening Water. New poems from Daniel Hoffman.
The Ornament of the World. When Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in peace.
Vacation with Verse
Kelly Writers House hosts workshop
Ever Changing, Always Themselves
The Seduction of Place. Why we love the cities we do.
Misgivings. A poet’s memoir of family life.
Bearing Witness in Blue
Harrison Tao C’74
“There Will be Cake!”
Ruth Branning Molloy Ed’30 invited friends to help her celebrate “90 years of uninterrupted living.”
Brotherly Love: How Bittersweet the Sound
New life for Hoffman's Brotherly Love
Paris is for Pooches
Michael Malyszko C’73 and Judith Hughes CW’73
Talking Around Love
A poetry collection examines the emotion from multiple angles.
Spreading the Word
Poetry goes public on College Green.
Moderns in the Quad
Two legendary poets formed friendship at Penn that would change the course of American Poetry.