Poetry

Long-time VQR contributor Charles Simic was named the United States poet laureate yesterday. Simic's work in VQR has included "Memories of the Future," "Meditation in the Gutter" and "Ghost Ship." Subscribers to the magazine can also read "Death of a [...]

We hosted a couple of events on Friday that we recorded for your listening pleasure. First we held a series of lectures on the newly-discovered Robert Frost poem, featuring our own Ted Genoways, New Republic poetry editor Glyn Maxwell, and graduate s [...]

One week ago Slashdot wrote about Fibonacci-based poetry, more as a joke than anything else. Reader Gregory K. noted that the month being both National Poetry Month and Math Awareness month, and proposed six-line, twenty-syllable poems with a pattern [...]

Greg Orr, professor of Creative Writing at UVa, read on orginal essay, "On the Making of Poems" this afternoon on "This I Believe," a regular segment on NPR's "All Things Considered." The "This I Believe" project invites Americans from all walks of l [...]