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12/18/2001 - Top Picks: Novelists All Poets Should Read
In the novelists-all-poets-oughtta-read category, here are our choices.

12/11/2001 - Top Picks: Poets' Novels
Find here the secret dynamic of top flight fiction -- it’s [b][i]poets[/i][/b] wrote the best novels! Here are our choices, ten novels by poets that will zing any poet’s (or wannabe poet’s) heart.

12/4/2001 - Top Picks: Poetry Anthologies (Books)
A good anthology can be your best map of the world of poetry, giving you a sense of the poets' historical & artistic context and offering samplings of the work of many poets. We've chosen anthologies for your library in this new guide.

11/27/2001 - Top Picks: Recent Poetry CDs
Want to discover new poetry with your ears? We've selected the best recently issued CD collections by individual poets here.

11/23/2001 - Top Picks: Recent Poetry Books
Looking for a new poet's work to read, or to give to the poet in your life? We've selected the best recently published collections by individual poets here.

11/9/2001 - Poems After the Attack
We have enlarged our collection & offer it with the same wish that accompanied the first anthology we posted in September: In your grief, anger, consternation, confusion or resolve, we hope these poems offer you comfort, clarity or grace...

10/30/2001 - Poetry In Times Like These
An essay by Victor Infante on the place of poetry in time of crisis: “...while many Americans hied themselves to church to find solace, I found myself... at a poetry reading.”

10/16/2001 - Writers, Publishers, Librarians and Dreamers: A report from Zimbabwe
Lourdes Vázquez came back from last summer's Zimbabwe International Book Fair with “two boxes of books, magazines, folk art, two broken sculptures, a terrible cold” & having met many of Africa's greatest contemporary writers.

10/9/2001 - An Open Letter to Any Would-Be Terrorists
From Naomi Shihab Nye: “Find another way to live. Don't expect others to be like you. Read Rumi. Read Arabic poetry. Poetry humanizes us in a way that news, or even religion, has a harder time doing...”

10/2/2001 - Crossing Borders with Naomi Shihab Nye
Poems need no passports. There must be a Universal Artist Passport, with no borders. Naomi Shihab Nye is the First Citizen of the World of Poetry!

9/25/2001 - Poems After the Attack: A Contemporaneous Anthology
More poems collected from our friends around the Net & from the poets in our Forum: In your grief, anger, consternation, confusion or resolve, we hope these poems offer you comfort, clarity or grace...

9/12/2001 - After the Attack: “Cement Cloud”
A letter from Bob Holman in Lower Manhattan & a poem written after the September 11 terrorist attack, plus old poems worth rereading in these dark days & new poems responding to the events of September 11 from Lorna Dee Cervantes & the poets in our Forum.

8/28/2001 - With Your Ears Tuned South
Miriam Stanley introduces us to Meagan Brothers: “She's a polite bad ass hailing from Lake Lure, North Carolina... in NYC not nearly a year, but she has made a big buzz...”

8/14/2001 - The Poetry Kids from Pittsburgh
A Report from the Front of the Poetry Wars: Here comes 19-year-old Jasin from Pittsburgh to remind us why we write 'em, and how the “Sullen Art” (Dylan Thomas), the Solitary Muse, is going pop, communal, active...

8/8/2001 - Hot Poem! Edwin Torres: “How to Stay Kool”
We commissioned one of our, ahem, most favorite of cool poets to compose a How To Poem to melt the mind.

7/31/2001 - The First Rule of the Internet Is Access -- But What About Children?
Poetry is always on the front of the profanity issue. So when we are called on it here at About Poetry, we reply, best we know how.

7/10/2001 - “Hiring a Professional” by Anne MacNaughton
A backstage report in the form of a poem from the 2001 Taos Poetry Circus & World Heavyweight Poetry Bout.

7/3/2001 - A Word To the Wise: On Entering Your Poems in Competition
Our friend Kurt Heintz has some sage advice for the poet who asked this question: “What is the reliability of the hundreds of poetry contests being run on the Net? Is it prudent to submit manuscripts to them?”

6/26/2001 - Poetry Down Under, Part II: The Book Report
The O'Keefe Aptowicz Awards for Excellence in Australian Poetry.

6/19/2001 - Poetry Down Under
Museletter correspondent Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz brings NYC-style poetry slam to the Land Down Under, at the New Voices Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

6/5/2001 - Scrubbin' Da Scroll: The Author, the Auctioneer & the Acquiring Mind
Brian Hassett was in the room when the gavel went down on Jack Kerouac's venerated On the Road typewriter-roll at Christie's, & here's his poetic account of the proceedings.

5/29/2001 - Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?
We'd like your opinion, please: A reader poll to help direct our efforts at About Poetry.

5/23/2001 - Willie Perdomo Gets Political
Where a Nickel Costs a Quarter: One of the best young poets at work today, Willie Perdomo talks about the poetic & the political.

5/17/2001 - Galway Kinnell's Word Hoard: The envelope, please
Clearly, Galway’s gauntlet pricked the thought balloon of inspiration: 34 Loyal Readers responded to Professor Kinnell’s vocabulary test. And picking a winner was tough, tough, tough...

5/8/2001 - Galway Kinnell's Word Hoard: A poetic challenge
Now, we challenge you, Poets! To utilize all eight (8) words that Galway devised (for the Improv Round in the People's Poetry Gathering Poetry Bout) in a single poem of no more than eight lines.

5/3/2001 - Survivor Poet! Final Round
In which our readers are asked to choose the last Survivor: Emily “The Virgin” Dickinson or Edgar “Nevermore” Allan Poe.

4/27/2001 - Survivor Poet! Round 3
In which Geoffrey “Jolly Forth” Chaucer & Ezra “The Genius” Pound were banished, to arrive at the showdown between the last two Survivor Poets.

4/21/2001 - Survivor Poet! Round 2
In which Charles “Bad Boy” Baudelaire & Li “Wiseguy” Po were voted off the About Poetry island (after the elimination of Anna “Saint Voice” Akhmatova & Phillis “I’m Talking Now” Wheatley in the first round).

4/11/2001 - Survivor Poet!
“Which book would you take to a desert island?” is so last year! This year, you get stuck on our island with... SURVIVOR POET! That’s right. You choose. Who will survive? Read the poems of our tribe of eight great poets & vote two off this week.

4/3/2001 - Wanda Coleman's Book Club
Who knows from Oprah? Wanda Coleman is the Most Out Poet There Is, and we offer our readers her nonhierarchical Top Ten to educate themselves.

3/20/2001 - New Site Feature: Poetry MP3 Picks
Introducing a new weekly feature at About Poetry: our choice of the best online poetry recordings for your listening pleasure.

3/7/2001 - In Memory of Gwendolyn Brooks: An Overheard Conversation
Patricia Smith and Quraysh Ali Lansana remember: “She didn’t have a career. Now that she’s dead, she can have a career. She had that white hot moment of silence after she finished reading a poem.”

2/20/2001 - Two Poems for Gwendolyn Brooks
Patricia Smith and Quraysh Lansana had their lives irrevocably altered by the earthfire word magic of this Schoolmarm of the Heavens.

2/13/2001 - Report from the Venue: The Broken Word
We’re big fans of Jack McCarthy. No pretense, no formulae, nothing but the poem delivered generously and direct. Here, he nails every venue in one all-purpose review.

2/6/2001 - The Battle of The New Yorker: A Diary
In 1995, Sparrow & the Unbearables descended on The New Yorker with poems, chants & slogans: “GIVE OUR POEMS HOEMS.” Sparrow is our National Town Crier; here is his journal of that time.

1/26/2001 - Gregory Corso, 1930-2001
A gathering of memories & stories: “I’m Gregory Corso! The poet! I’ll sign all the books! and, I’m hungry!”

1/23/2001 - First on the Listening List, Top of the Reading Stack for 2001
Bob Holman follows his year-end 2000 Poetry Wish List with a list of essential poetry books & recordings for the beginning of the new millennium in 2001.

1/16/2001 - Amy Lowell: Mother of Us All
Joan Joffe Hall read this poem at the great birthday party for Curbstone Press. Here’s the news in poetry: an overlooked minor poet leaps from the page to remind us what it’s all about.

1/9/2001 - Unblock! Ten Rules To Write First Time, Every Time
Bob Holman has the tools to open our poetic taps for the new millennium -- “Never forget: writing is the application of the seat of one’s pants, to the seat of one’s chair... So stand up!”