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- PoemBy Joshua SeigalI don’t like similes.Every time I try to think of onemy brain feels like a vast, empty desert;my eyes…
- ArticleBy Peter O’Leary
One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
- ArticleBy Tyler MaloneFor a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
- CollectionBy Adam O. DavisPoetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.
- ArticleBy Sarah ArvioMetaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand.
- CollectionBy The EditorsEducational resources on poetic forms curated by Poetry Foundation staff
- ArticleBy Julie IrigarayA hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage
- ArticleBy Natalie Earnhart & The EditorsInterventionist Poet and Performer of (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual
- ArticleBy Noah Baldino & The EditorsWork by the Rocker, Poet, Activist, and Literary Trendsetter
- ArticleBy Sarah Alcaide-Escue & The EditorsPoems by a legendary Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist
- ArticleBy The Editors & Jenna PengA poet and translator enriching the mind and spirit
- ArticleBy Noah Baldino & The Editors“Emotionally scathing” poems by this radical poet of the unsaid
- ArticleBy Sarah Ahmad & The EditorsReading the work of Philadelphia’s first poet laureate
- ArticleBy The Editors & Jenna PengPoems from an architect of the Black Arts Movement
