Articles
On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.
On a poet whose work vibrated with humor, humility, and humanity.
The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.
W.H. Auden's conflicted love of England is front and center in The Island.
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Scott ChallenerThis short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.
Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-MotlA Modern poet’s message and her mediums.
- EssayBy Jared Marcel Pollen
On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.
Grantee-Partner Profile
The Northwest New Mexico Arts Council supports the literary and performing arts, STEAM education, and other enrichment for people of all ages.
- EssayBy Philip Metres
On a poet whose work vibrated with humor, humility, and humanity.
- EssayBy Alexander Wells
The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.
- Foundation NewsBy Crystal Carrazco
Insights from the 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellows
Grantee-Partner Profile
Mass Poetry delivers free poetry programs to underserved audiences in libraries, community centers, museums, and schools.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By SapphireFor Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Randall MannI want reading a poem to be a bit like risky sex.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Andrea CohenWhen asked to muse on an awkward or difficult emotion, I think: Aren’t all emotions awkward?
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Graham FoustIt may be that offishness is a feature of any great poem.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Carlie HoffmanOn a years-long endeavor to translate Ausländer’s poems for the first essential selection to be published in the United States.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Hüseyin Alhas & Ulaş ÖzgünOnur’s verses are so intricately and sophisticatedly woven that their interpretation can yield entirely different meanings depending on the reader’s perspective.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Adrian MatejkaCertainty is for football coaches and mathematicians, not poets.
- EssayBy Declan Ryan
W.H. Auden's conflicted love of England is front and center in The Island.
Translator’s Notes
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Grantee-Partner Profile
Lugar Comun builds bridges between cultures through art in Miami.
- InterviewBy Daisy Fried
August Kleinzahler on A History of Western Music.
