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Shout Mouse Press is a nonprofit writing and publishing program to coach young people from marginalized communities as they write their own stories for professional publication and broad distribution. 

I think of the importance for the poet of finding a place in which to cultivate reverie, a state which I link to revelations.

Suddenly I got why writers write all those books about the color blue, immersive as a dream.

Grantmaking Updates at the Poetry Foundation

Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. 

Artes de México en Utah offers community conversations, workshops, and events that connect Latine people to their roots, build cross-cultural competence, and foster pride in multicultural heritage through creative outlets. 

I was bestowed a gift: I was invited to join a lineage of poets who advocate for poetry by and for young people. 

WordPlay Cincy creates opportunities for children, teens, and young adults in Cincinnati, Ohio, to fulfill their potential through creative expression.

A few of our favorite books of 2024.

A sampling of our 2024 book reviews.

Announcing Fall 2024 Grant Awardees

A reading list of our 2024 features.

The songwriter espoused a personal, hedonistic kind of spirituality.

One of the first poetry-dedicated publishing houses in the United States, Alice James Books focuses on supporting artists whose voices have been marginalized or who offer overlooked perspectives.

A poet of Cleveland, Ohio, whose poems reveal the city's visual and musical possibilities in ways that are exciting and complex and strange.

Updates to the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Application Process

Fifty years after it was published, Elsa’s Housebook remains an intimate photographic document of the literary avant-garde.

We must be deliberate in considering what we owe each other and how we care for and protect each other. 

Readers must accept being co-creators.

At the end of every year, we’re all thinking of the future, one with the possibility of gentleness and abiding joy.