poetry

‘The human capacity to carry many things at once’

By Jennifer Hijazi

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.

To describe the trans experience, this poet created a new dialect

By Jennifer Hijazi

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.

This new poetry anthology honors the scope of native writers

By Jennifer Hijazi

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.

This acclaimed feminist poet sees practical magic in resistance

By Jennifer Hijazi

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.

How young writers are leading a poetry comeback

By Jennifer Hijazi

Twenty-eight million American adults read poetry this year -- the highest percentage of poetry readership in more than 15 years.

Kevin Young intertwines personal and public history in ‘Brown’

As a writer, editor and archivist, Kevin Young is a poet actively engaged with the world. In his new collection, "Brown," Young draws heavily on his boyhood in Topeka, Kansas, tying it in large and small ways to the wider…

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Remember the humanity of immigrants, this poet urges

By Jennifer Hijazi

Eduardo Corral's poems are an imagined glimpse into the internal lives of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border -- something he said has been forgotten or intentionally omitted in the national conversation.