The New York Times

BOOKS OF VERSES, BOTH OLD AND NEW; They Are Many, and Dramatic Poetry and Ballads Seem to be the Preferred Forms.

He practices dramatic poetry quite humanly and seems to be invested with a certain significance in the author's mind as the prophet of a coming era in modern literature. The present writer asked Miss ...
The Atlantic

The Poet as Playwright

ONE would feel happier about the future of poetry on the stage were it not for the defensiveness of those who proclaim it. Poetry had used the theatre and the theatre had used poetry for thousands of ...
The Atlantic

Poetry and the Stage

READERS whose interest persists in the parlous question of the modern stage are likely to have read, not long ago, Mr. Gosse’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly on Poetic Drama, and Mr. Corbin’s article ...
National Review

James Matthew Wilson on What Poetry Is, and Isn’t

James Matthew Wilson is an award-winning professor of religion and literature at Villanova University and the author of two poetry collections, Some Permanent Things (2014) and The Hanging God (2018).
America Magazine

‘Dante’ and ‘Desire’: 2 poetry collections confront modern crises in ancient style

Micheal O’Siadhail’s Desire and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Dear Dante are collections designed and erected meticulously in an ancient style that an avid reader is unlikely to see in much contemporary ...
The Bulletin

A.S. Maulucci: Dramatic poetry still has audience; it needs a voice

Poetry on stage — or poetic drama — is a natural extension of poetry on the page. The ancient Greeks wrote their great tragedies and comedies in verse, as did the Romans. Medieval morality plays such ...
KQED

3 Collections Take the Poetic Measure of America in the Aftermath of the Pandemic

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...
PBS

This poetry uses Mary Magdalene to explore troubles that bedevil modern life

how her left is my right, and for a moment I understood. It could be a contemporary encounter between any woman and her child: the girl studying a map for homework, her mother seeing something larger.
The New York Times

Modern Poetry.

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Hindustan Times

Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern performance poetry, dies at 93

Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher of her works, said Wednesday.