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By Layla Benitez-James
I encounter Guillén and feel this, this is what I was reaching for.
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.
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Revisiting Gwendolyn Brooks’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Annie Allen.
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Distinguished and innovative poet, playwright, and mentor
- ArticleBy Lisa 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 Spencer Reece¿viste la grieta azul de la luna rota? Lorca, 5 am and I am slathered in Spain: cologne, exhaust, coffee...
- PoemBy David TrinidadEven when you have nothing to do there’s Too much history to put into poetry Is the work to be done ...
- PoemBy Jameson Fitzpatrickrest for the girls the Muses, perfumed with violet, brought gifts rest and the clarifying lyre rest...
- PoemBy Lillian-Yvonne BertramPinned to the orchard, the alge- bra of unfolded diapers drying on the line and skyward brays a plane...
- PoemBy Timothy LiuComing back from the ski trip in the back of a van, it had gotten dark enough for the steady hum of ...
- 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...
- AudioThe Poetry Magazine PodcastThis week, Cindy Juyong Ok talks with Cathy Park Hong, who has published three volumes of poetry and the collection of essays Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, which...
- PoemBy Jamila Woodsi caught my breath & called that life i cannot be comprehended it is better to write spit out words ...
- AudioThe Poetry Magazine PodcastThis week, Esther Belin speaks with Diamond Forde, who joins us from Asheville, North Carolina, which she describes as a sort of homecoming. One of five recent recipients...
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- ArticleMarking a milestone with over $1.1 million in prizes
