Theme
Lineages & Legacies
Poems, essays, and events that engage with works or people in conversation with the poet. This includes poems about family, poems “after” other poets, works that pull lines from other sources, and land acknowledgments.
Showing 1-20 of 36 results
- ArticleBy Sapphire
For Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.
- PoemBy Jayne CortezFrom white lightnin to
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out closed in
how do … 
- ArticleBy Ocean Vuong
Honoring one of the most influential lyric practitioners of our time.
- ArticleBy Li-Young Lee
Something I never read in any book keeps me awake tonight, something my father said.
- ArticleBy Yasmine Ameli
Navigating Audience, Orientalism, and Family Mythology Beyond the Binary.
- PoemBy Kao Nhia KueI come from
Muas Nkauj Liag, northern lands unknown
From refugees with blistered feet
From sun-dried… - PoemBy C. Dale YoungNot, as some believe, from the word genesis,
the word gene came from the Greek genos
meaning origin… - ArticleBy Layla Benitez-James
I encounter Guillén and feel this, this is what I was reaching for.
- ArticleBy Nora Brooks Blakely
Revisiting Gwendolyn Brooks’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Annie Allen.
- Article
Established in 1996 to remedy the underrepresentation and isolation of Black poets in the literary landscape
- ArticleBy L. Renée
Distinguished and innovative poet, playwright, and mentor
- ArticleBy Isaac JarnotI’d like to think of this essay as an opportunity to peer into some rooms that are for me essential to my life as a poet.
- PoemBy Emanuel XavierI wanted to be a poet. I hustled my way
into the literary scene much like I had at the piers.
They watched me dare to speak my truth. They said,
“Good for you! Talking openly about your
experiences as a queer poet of... - PoemBy Timothy LiuComing back
from the ski trip
in the back of a van,
it had gotten dark
enough for
the steady hum
of the engine
to lull us all
into a deep sleep—
my best friend
and I having
the backseat
all to ourselves.
Have you ever felt
your body starting
to lean toward
its truest
intentions—head
hoping hard
for...