In April of 1966, the PSA held a poetry competition between free-verse Allen and his father, a more formal poet teaching at Rutgers University. Find the newspaper clippings below! MORE

Last Thursday May 6th,  the Poetry Society of America joined forces with the Academy of American poets and NYU's Creative Writing Program to honor Daniel Halpern on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Ecco Press.

John Ashbery, Anthony Bourdain, Janie Fink, Richard Ford, Jorie Graham, Bob Hass, Campbell McGrath, and Joyce Carol Oates came together in a sweetly conspiratorial spirit to read favorite poems by Dan and to pay tribute to the spectacularly influential editor and publisher, and the audience of 400 or so appreciated every word. MORE

The exhibition, Emily Dickinson's Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, co-presented with the Poetry Society of America, will demonstrate the Botanical Garden's innovative approach to garden-wide displays that merge the arts and the natural world to produce stunning and thought-provoking results. MORE

This poem was one of 32 "recipes" commissioned from various writers by the visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra (the project was published in the June 2010 issue of Esopus magazine). MORE

JOHN CAGE: 4'33" (1952). The classic. In three movements. Premiered by David Tudor on piano, although it sounds pretty good even in transcriptions. MORE

This may be the closest I've come to writing a praise poem.  I didn't intend to write one.  Maybe the scissors, rosin, and wax are in the poem because I was imagining what it would feel like to break free, for a moment, from being material—a body stilled on a bench—and fly. MORE

THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY: AN ACROSTIC

This is one of ED's smartest or wisest poems.

Her insight tickles;  it also encourages. MORE

This poem is a direct response to the introduction of Coleridge's "Xanadu-Kubla Khan" in which he explains thata most unwelcome visitor from Porlock disturbed his "anodyne" vision and ruined his inspiration for his poem.I was always fascinated with this poem: who was this friend?  What business was Coleridge called to? MORE