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I blushed because I had completely forgotten something that I had put out into the world.

In a literary climate that prizes detachment over devotion and irony over intimacy, Rigoberto González commits what might be called radical acts of sincerity.

A metaphysical poet of myths and mysteries. 

This is the first time he’s entrusted me with a poem of his own.

It should be a good poem on its own terms.

Being an editor who is also a practicing poet can be a complicated thing.

Images and poems drawn from a brotherhood of peace shared by Czech American poet Shann Ray and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho ledger artist James Black. 

She tried to see the universe from an atom's point of view.

Stanley Plumly’s Collected Poems shows him to be the contemporary heir to John Keats.

Stomping Grounds Literary Arts Initiative is a Chicago-based arts and literacy incubator that immerses young people in the creative arts, fostering their personal growth, reflection, and the opportunity to take charge of their own lives. 

Recognizing lifetime achievement in craft, service to the literary arts, and poetry criticism.

Mother tongues and the chasms between languages.

Two collections delve into the backbreaking world of factory labor in China.

To engage the timeful queerness of Cheryl Clarke’s impact is to enter a portal.

True artistic freedom needs both: the removal of barriers and the creation of pathways.

These poems are markedly different from the overtly political, moralistic ecopoems of contemporary US poetry.

All the best poems are metaphoric bridges.

Presenting free poetry events, writing workshops, a new exhibition, and more.

She survived in and because of poetry. That, and love. 

On Alice Notley’s Disobedience.