Poetry Nov 28 One poet’s advice for feeling at home in the unfamiliar It is in our quiet observations, poet Jenny Xie says, that we can find ourselves when we’re on the move.
Poetry Nov 05 America’s poet laureate shares a poem for you to take to the polls A new poetry collection invites readers to explore the diversity of American experiences in a different light.
Poetry Aug 29 Remembering Tom Clark, renowned poet who rhapsodized about baseball Prolific poet and biographer Tom Clark died this month at the age of 77, leaving behind a substantial body of writing that exemplifies his penchants for lyricism, wit, and brevity, as well as a lifelong love of baseball.
Poetry Aug 21 A poet grows up in the post-Columbine world Kelly Forsythe's latest collection “Perennial” imagines a different kind of narrative in the wake of the Columbine High School shooting -- a “coming-of-age” story about what it means when feeling safe has drastically changed.
Arts Aug 16 How Aretha Franklin shaped generations of music “If there’s a heaven, this is what it sounds like.”…
Poetry Aug 14 ‘The human capacity to carry many things at once’ For poet Ada Limón, carrying both the joys and sorrows of a child-free life is a testament to the human ability to exist with many things piled on our shoulders at once.
Poetry Aug 06 ‘False news’ charges put this Egyptian poet in prison "The light doesn’t care how tall the fence is; it’s not hemmed in by steel bars or officers’ uniforms. It cannot be forgotten," Galal El-Behairy writes in a poem from Cairo's Tora Prison.
Poetry Jul 30 To describe the trans experience, this poet created a new dialect The language of Jos Charles' “feeld” is like an artifact from a different time, a kind of “lost Middle English” concieved to describe the trans experience in new ways.
Poetry Jul 23 This new poetry anthology honors the scope of native writers There is “grass and apologies, bones and joy, marching bands and genocide, skin and social work” and much more in the work of the 21 native writers featured in the collection.
Poetry Jul 17 This acclaimed feminist poet sees practical magic in resistance Rooted in protest during this time of uncertainty and anxiety, “Trickster Feminism” explores “what poetry can possibly do, especially in an urgent situation,” according to Anne Waldman.