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"Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn’t. You can see it all at once.” 

Each poem is a romance, a love affair. They don’t resemble one another, and each one is a kind of infatuation. Then once you are into it, like a relationship, it’s unpredictable.

Since 1976, RHINO Poetry has been committed to publishing and showcasing eclectic approaches to poetic excellence through its annual publication, RHINO, the centerpiece of its efforts. 

What humans have perpetrated on their environment certainly affects the means and material of poets. But can poetry itself be ecological?

But what is a seed? Is it the apple? Is it a Kingdom? To hold a seed, weightless, in the palm of your hand, is to think, Soon. 

What I have not said yet is that the prose poem forced me to reckon with one of the big questions of my life: who am I really writing for? 

Now it’s your turn. For writers who have been struggling to find the form that breathes their stories to life, prose poetry has a growing literary tradition we can learn from. 

Poets are at their finest talking about the dead in metaphors and questions because both suggest some mystery lies just out of sight.

Through his ancient syntaxes, Carl Phillips suggests directness and clarity are neither possible nor perfect in art.

In addition to “lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” this book reveals a Lorde who is akin to flower, volcano, tree, star, whale, honeybee, diamond, meteor, burst of light, and more.

Recognizing poets for achievement in craft, service to the literary arts, poetry criticism, and poetry for young audiences.

Gwendolyn Brooks’s second volume of poetry is a coming-of-age narrative that charts the rites of passage in a young Black woman’s life: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.