I have been reading Jane Yeh ever since I came across her first book, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), some years ago. Since then, she has published two more books: Ninjas (Carcanet 2012) and Discipline ...

Congratulations to Cheswayo Mphanza, who was selected by judge Alexis Pauline Gumbs as the winner of the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest! About Mphanza’s winning poems, “Notes Towards a ...

Award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker will be the featured guest at the 11th annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading, which takes place this year as a virtual event on November ...

[Editor’s Note: Frances McCue is a poet, writer, co-founder of nonprofit community writing center Hugo House, and a teaching professor at the University of Washington. She reads this piece in a ...

“Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems” is a first collection of its kind and includes poems from Wisconsin Poets Laureates across the state. ";s: In U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s book “Crazy Brave” ...

She said the title of her book was inspired by her final project in college, “Lay Me Down Among the Words.” “It was always my dream to make it into a book,” she said. “The first section of the book is ...

Poetry has the ability to give us strength in our darkest times and reflect our joy in our happiest moments. For evidence, just look at the outpouring of gratitude for Amanda Gorman — President ...

For Tim Jones, writing poems is like a bridge between the various roles he inhabits in his life: artist, Episcopal Deacon and chief operating officer at the Hendersonville Rescue Mission. Jones, who ...

“In time, we will put our eyes to this light and see that these people are the peers of nature. And forgivingly, when they appear we will lift up our song and sing, and say we cannot praise too much ...

Throughout American history, Black people have written poetry reflecting on their lives, their struggles and their aspirations. But many of these works had been lost to time, or never widely read.

Poetry has been in Kazim Ali’s life for as long as he can remember, but he needs it more than ever now. And he suspects you might need it, too. “For me, poetry is absolutely a comfort. It is a way of ...

At the annual Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Saratoga Springs' annual poetry worship service, worshippers share poems that got them through the year instead of listening to a sermon. One ...