Winter Poetry: 'Tis the season for pathetic fallacy

ARTICLES: January 22, 2010 The Poetry of Deep Winter BY ANNIE FINCH A selection of poems to help you get through the rest of the chill, frost, and darkness. Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense BY ROSS SIMONINI The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy. MORE FEATURES 2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry BY THE EDITORS How has poetry changed in the past ten years? The Robert Burns Zombie Cottage of Hotlanta BY NICK MARINO The Scottish poet at home in another time and place. Washington, DC, Poetry Tour Our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets. Poet Philip Levine Recalls Life at the Factory A profile of Philip Levine, a former auto worker who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. BEST SELLERS LIST Contemporary Best Sellers for the week of January 3, 2010 1 Leavings BY WENDELL BERRY (Counterpoint) 2 Evidence BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press) 3 Red Bird (paperback) BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press) 4 Why I Wake Early BY MARY OLIVER (Beacon Press) 5 The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) BY W.S. MERWIN (Copper Canyon Press) MORE BEST SELLERS » Thom Donovan asks, do we need negative criticism? Bhanu Kapil hunts for red worms. Sina Queyras wonders what blurbs are good for. Craig Santos Perez asks the laughers to stand up. MORE ENTRIES » Poetry Written with an Eraser Ron Silliman discusses two erasure poems created by eliminating parts of an existing text. James Schuyler: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet James Schuyler, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in 1986, and at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989. MORE PODCASTS »

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