Poets

Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

"Worse Than a State Indifferent to Poetry was One Obsessed With It"

 
By Martin Puchner  October 27, 2017
Poets

Autumn Has Always Been Poets’ Season

By Will Dowd  October 23, 2017
Feature

Poetry From Honduras’ Our Little Roses Home for Girls

By Spencer Reece  October 23, 2017
Criticism

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

By Sasha Pimentel  October 20, 2017
Essay

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

By Marius Chivu  October 19, 2017
Essay

What Does Your Life Teach You About Becoming a Writer?

By David Biespiel  October 16, 2017
Poets

Three New Poems by Danez Smith

By Danez Smith  October 11, 2017
Poets

Beauty, a Poem by Solmaz Sharif

By Solmaz Sharif  October 6, 2017
Events

Celebrating 25 Years of Poetry in Motion

By Catherine Woodard  September 29, 2017
Poets

“Idiopathic Illness” a New Poem by Meghan O’Rourke

By Meghan O'Rourke  September 26, 2017
Poets

Two New Poems by John Freeman

By John Freeman  September 25, 2017
Poets

Where Are All the Rural Gay Poets?

By Bruce Snider  September 22, 2017
Poets

Parallelogram

By Emily Skillings  September 20, 2017
Poets

Kaveh Akbar: How I Found Poetry in Childhood Prayer

By Kaveh Akbar  September 12, 2017
Awards

Read a Poem by Ali Cobby Eckerman

By Literary Hub  September 12, 2017
Poets

A New Poem by Nicole Sealey

By Nicole Sealey  September 11, 2017
Poets

dear white america: A Poem by Danez Smith

By Danez Smith  September 5, 2017
Poets

90 Lines For John Ashbery’s 90th Birthday

By Literary Hub  September 5, 2017
Poets

“Here in a State of Tectonic Tension,” A Poem by Lawrence Joseph

By Lawrence Joseph  September 5, 2017
Poets

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

By Matthew Zapruder  August 16, 2017
Poets

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

By Franco “Bifo” Berardi  August 11, 2017
Poets

Poetry Against the Border Wall

By Aracelis Girmay  July 26, 2017
Poets

How Patti Smith Brought Rock ‘n’ Roll to New York Poetry

By Daniel Kane  July 24, 2017
Poets

The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years

By Emily Temple  July 24, 2017
Poets

AMERICAN SONNET FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN

By Terrance Hayes  July 19, 2017
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