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By L. Renée
Cornelius Eady is a poet who has charted great depths of personal and family histories, of musical landscapes, and of sociocultural influences. Eady’s work explores class and racial disparities, ...
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- Poem SamplerBy Kevin Barents[Jump to poems by genre: Plays | Poems | Sonnets ]We know more about Shakespeare (1564–1616) than about most people who died more than 400 years ago. We are quite sure, for example, that he grew ...
- Poem SamplerBy Noah Baldino, Natalie Earnhart & The EditorsKearney’s lyrical poems range across the page, bridging thematic concerns that include politics, African American culture, masks, the trickster figure, and contemporary music. He describes the nontradition...
- Poem SamplerBy Amy WrightWhether contemplating a newly-observed firefly behavior or spiritual instruction calligraphed by a 12th-century Taoist priestess, Hahn pays “attention to attention,” archiving those turning points...
- Poem SamplerBy Natalie Earnhart & The Editors[Jump to poems by publication year: 2014, 2016, 2018, 2023]CAConrad (1966--present) has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. A recipient of a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry...
- Poem SamplerBy Noah Baldino & The Editors[Jump to poems by publication year: 1994, 2005]Though known primarily as a rocker, Patti Smith (1946–present) creatively blurs the boundaries between poetry and song, memoir and lyric. Smith is a...
- Poem SamplerBy Sarah Alcaide-Escue & The Editors[Jump to poems by publication year: 1990s, 2020s, 2023]Angela Jackson (1951–present) is a poet, playwright, and novelist who has earned many honors for fiction and poetry, including a 2022 Ruth Lilly...
- Poem SamplerBy Sarah Ahmad & The Editors[Jump to poems by publication year: 1990s, 2010s, 2023]Sonia Sanchez (1934–present) is the author of more than 20 books, including National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Does Your House Have Lions? (Beacon...
- Poem SamplerBy The Editors & Jenna Peng[Jump to poems by publication year: 1960s, 2000s, 2010s, 2023]Haki R. Madhubuti (1942-present) is regarded as an architect of the Black Arts Movement and is founder and publisher of Chicago’s Third...
- Poem SamplerBy Noah Baldino & The Editors[Jump to poems by publication year: 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2023]Sharon Olds (1942–present) was raised, she has said, as a “hellfire Calvinist,” an upbringing that perhaps led to her embrace of the ...
- Poem SamplerBy The Editors & Jenna Peng[Jump to poems by publication year: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s]Arthur Sze (1950–present) is a poet, a translator, and an editor with 11 published books of poetry, including Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press...
- Poem SamplerBy Noah Baldino & The Editors[Jump to poems by publication year: 1980, 1990s, 2000s, 2023]I've been at the “business” of poetry for some time; I know that I'm considered more of a “non-militant” writer. As I get older, however...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin Voigt[Jump to poems by publication year: 1990s | 2000s | 2010s]Poet Patricia Smith has never been one to rest on her laurels: though she’s received an impressive number of awards—the Kingsley Tufts, the...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin VoigtOver the last 30 years, Carl Phillips has carved out a unique place in US poetry, making a career of fusing seeming contradictions. He is a prolific writer with consistent concerns and motifs, and...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin VoigtFew writers are as relentless as Wanda Coleman was. A single mother who grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Coleman often struggled to make ends meet: a reality that poems like “Things...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin VoigtBy the end of her career, Lucille Clifton had achieved a rare stature. Critically acclaimed and widely read, she was a lodestar, a bright point for the poetry world to follow. Born in 1936, she is...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin VoigtThough Lorine Niedecker remained a lesser-known figure in the story of 20th-century poetry for many years—she published relatively little and began to find notice only later in life—she wrote important...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin VoigtFew poets are as fearless and as innovative as Marilyn Chin. Her life in verse began early: born in Hong Kong but raised in Portland, Oregon, she recalls her grandmother reciting hundreds of Tang...
- Poem SamplerBy Benjamin VoigtNow regarded as a towering figure of modern verse, Wallace Stevens was probably better known as an insurance man for much of his adult life. But during a long and comfortable career at the Hartford...
