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 ...

The second season of the podcast Poetry Unbound has started. NPR gets a look with podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama. The poet Padraig O Tuama wants to engage you with the power of poems. The podcast he ...

Poet Ilya Kaminsky is the author of three collections, including Deaf Republic, a 2019 National Book Award finalist and winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Below, he names his favorite new ...

“Breathe Here: Selected Poems” by Ellie O’Leary; North Country Press, Unity, Maine, 2020; 84 pages, paperback, $14.95. Ellie O’Leary spent years providing intimate access to Maine poets on her Writers ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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.

Editor’s Note: Richie Hofmann is the author of the poetry collection “Second Empire” (2015) and winner of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He is a lecturer at ...