Articles
The Eternal Dice shows César Vallejo breaking with the Latin American modernist tradition in poems that mix satire, socialist ideals, and formal experimentation.
Finding a way to stretch language to fit you and your stray prepositions.
A poet who held imagination as his one most crucial tool in the search for a glimpse of glamourie.
Joe Brainard's letters are playful, elusive, and hungry for art.
A poet whose multifarious fascinations included ornithology, classical piano, jazz, long-distance rail travel, and architecture.
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy CM BurroughsThere is lightness within these downtrodden lives!
Poem GuideBy Austin AllenBridging two languages and generations in one intricate poem.
- EssayBy Julia Kornberg
The Eternal Dice shows César Vallejo breaking with the Latin American modernist tradition in poems that mix satire, socialist ideals, and formal experimentation.
Grantee-Partner Profile
One Book One New Orleans increases access to books and improves literacy skills through strategic outreach to adults with low literacy, adults and youth who are incarcerated, and those with visual impairment.
- EssayBy Mia You
Finding a way to stretch language to fit you and your stray prepositions.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Luci TapahonsoOur language reminds us of the legacy that connects us to the past and instills that legacy in this present time.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Chris HoshnicIt isn’t the final product of a poem I’m interested in, but the way poetry can bring community together.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser, Denise Low, Elise Paschen, Beth Piatote & Jake SkeetsThe gathered collective thoughts are a restorative way to close this issue.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Laura ToheWhen I write in Diné bizaad the sounds come from the center of what it means to be Diné. Diné bizaad bee yashti. Diné bizaad bee hadínisht’é.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Manny LoleyIn thinking about saad, I am called back to the mesa.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Esther BelinThe writing in this issue manifests how we are gathering our sounds and patchworking the remnants.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Kimberly BlaeserAs Indigenous writers, we are here against all odds.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Natanya Ann PulleyWe must accept a holiness in the language of space and silence.
- EssayBy Robin Robertson
A poet who held imagination as his one most crucial tool in the search for a glimpse of glamourie.
- Learning PromptBy Lara Mimosa Montes
On Play and the Creative Impulse
- EssayBy Yasmine Shamma
Joe Brainard's letters are playful, elusive, and hungry for art.
Grantee-Partner Profile
Words Without Borders cultivates global awareness by expanding access to international writing and creating a bridge between readers, writers, and translators.
- Foundation News
Voters cast their ballots in Chicago Reader’s "Best of Chicago" 2024 poetry categories
- EssayBy Alina Pleskova
A poet whose multifarious fascinations included ornithology, classical piano, jazz, long-distance rail travel, and architecture.
- EssayBy Silvina López Medin
I often get the impression of living between two courses or two times.
- Learning PromptBy Michelle Alexander
a collaboration on ekphrastic poetry