Poetry & Popular Culture

Speculation fueled more speculation this week about whether or not pop singer Beyonce lip-synced the U.S. national anthem at the  swea...

This afternoon, President Barack Obama will sign an $858 billion tax bill into law. Extending the Bush-era tax cuts for another two years...

As Yale University professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander prepares for the most important poetry reading of her life—on Tuesday, January 20...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen on December 12 You say you like the North side best? We’ll say we like the South. Talk badly to the pres...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen November 7, 2008 How to say it except to say it straight? I saw things on Tuesday night that I never expected...

Many thanks to Angela Sorby, Associate Professor of English at Marquette University and author of Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance,...

Awash in campaign ads, anticipating its share of the $700 billion bailout, and looking forward to tonight's town-hall debate between Bar...

While "Poetry & Popular Culture" has yet to hear from Palin or the Palin/McCain campaign about Palin's poetic preferences,...

"My father's fondest dream" Setting the record straight on Frank Marshall Davis Reporting for the Iowa City Press-Citizen new...

Breaking News: "Poetry & Popular Culture" has just learned, from sources sorta close to the Biden campaign, that the vice-pre...

The following article—by yours truly—first appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen and The Des Moines Register on Wednesday, April 30, 2008....