In the heart of Western New York, the Ground and Sky Poetry Series stands as a testament to the power of poetry to create connection, foster witness, and build community. Now, as the Poetry Series ...
Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How can poetry help us now, when practically every morning brings a fresh assault on knowledge, wisdom and safety? Amid the cruel political discourse ...
Thousands of poetry fans and practitioners took the ferry out over the weekend to absorb one another’s work at the annual New York City Poetry Festival. By Nadav Gavrielov Photographs by Graham Dickie ...
Mary Ellen Capek, Lou Liberty and Juan J. Morales, three poets you may not have heard of, have recently published collections of their work. The poets deserve wider recognition. Capek, of Corrales, ...
A new print anthology of collected works from the Nepantla online poetry journal. (image by Irmand Trujillo, courtesy of Christopher Soto) From my perspective, it is always contentious when an effort ...
Two remarkable new poetry collections are reshaping conversations about Black American identity and experience. Brad Walrond’s Every Where Alien and Cheryl Clarke‘s Archive of Style: New and Selected ...
Caleb Rainey, a spoken word poet known as "The Negro Artist," performs at the newly-formed House of Words event for poets and other performing artists on Nov. 21 in Iowa City. (Elijah Decious/The ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." The Irish ...
Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner... Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How ...