Articles
She survived in and because of poetry. That, and love.
If you haven't begged for a kernel of time-earned wisdom while wet and half-naked, you haven’t lived.
Whether reciting poems from a bank lobby or singing along to Justin Bieber in LA traffic, he met the world with intellectual rigor and extraordinary attention.
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Scott ChallenerThis short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.
Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-MotlThe child elegy and the 19th-century poet.
Poem GuideBy Don BogenAn overlooked masterpiece depicts a feuding couple and the dreamy freedom just outside their door.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Alexis Pauline GumbsTo engage the timeful queerness of Cheryl Clarke’s impact is to enter a portal.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Nick MakohaTrue artistic freedom needs both: the removal of barriers and the creation of pathways.
- By Johannes Göransson
These poems are markedly different from the overtly political, moralistic ecopoems of contemporary US poetry.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Adrian MatejkaAll the best poems are metaphoric bridges.
- EssayBy Nick Sturm
She survived in and because of poetry. That, and love.
- By Cyrus Cassells
An imaginary conversation with Federico García Lorca.
- EssayBy Diana Arterian
If you haven't begged for a kernel of time-earned wisdom while wet and half-naked, you haven’t lived.
Grantee-Partner Profile
ByCavanKerry Press is a nonprofit literary press committed to expanding the reach of well-crafted poetry and literature by publishing works that explore the emotional and psychological landscapes of everyday life.
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Honoring remarkable young poets with more than $145,000 in prizes
- EssayBy Sandra Simonds
Whether reciting poems from a bank lobby or singing along to Justin Bieber in LA traffic, he met the world with intellectual rigor and extraordinary attention.
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Beginning August 18, Smith will welcome listeners to “lean into wonder and joy and truth ... to find hope” with a curated poem each weekday
- By Robert Kelly & Charlotte Mandell
He was at home in French, in German, in English, in baseball, and in poetry.
- EssayBy Amy Trachtenberg
Notes on visual art and the body in Norma Cole's work.
Grantee-Partner Profile
ByHub City Writers Project focuses on launching Southern poets into the national conversation while engaging and sustaining a large audience for contemporary poetry.
- EssayBy Austin Araujo
It’s as though the bridge does the work of re-enchanting Fayetteville for me.