Articles
New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history.
In Mojave Ghost, Forrest Gander recounts his 800-mile journey into the slow time of grief.
I think of the importance for the poet of finding a place in which to cultivate reverie, a state which I link to revelations.
Suddenly I got why writers write all those books about the color blue, immersive as a dream.
Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking.
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Christopher SpaideA madcap fracas! Law and dastards clash! All As!
Poem GuideBy Joy KatzRobert Hass, Baudelaire, Marx, and a bomb-building anarchist.
- EssayBy André Naffis-Sahely
New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history.
- EssayBy Srikanth Reddy
In Mojave Ghost, Forrest Gander recounts his 800-mile journey into the slow time of grief.
Grantee-Partner Profile
Shout Mouse Press is a nonprofit writing and publishing program to coach young people from marginalized communities as they write their own stories for professional publication and broad distribution.
- EssayBy Bianca Stone
I think of the importance for the poet of finding a place in which to cultivate reverie, a state which I link to revelations.
- EssayBy Mathias Svalina
Suddenly I got why writers write all those books about the color blue, immersive as a dream.
- Foundation News
Grantmaking Updates at the Poetry Foundation
- EssayBy Daegan Miller
Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking.
Grantee-Partner Profile
Artes de México en Utah offers community conversations, workshops, and events that connect Latine people to their roots, build cross-cultural competence, and foster pride in multicultural heritage through creative outlets.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Elizabeth AcevedoI was bestowed a gift: I was invited to join a lineage of poets who advocate for poetry by and for young people.
Grantee-Partner Profile
WordPlay Cincy creates opportunities for children, teens, and young adults in Cincinnati, Ohio, to fulfill their potential through creative expression.
- EssayBy Walker Mimms
The songwriter espoused a personal, hedonistic kind of spirituality.
Grantee-Partner Profile
One of the first poetry-dedicated publishing houses in the United States, Alice James Books focuses on supporting artists whose voices have been marginalized or who offer overlooked perspectives.
- EssayBy Kevin Prufer
A poet of Cleveland, Ohio, whose poems reveal the city's visual and musical possibilities in ways that are exciting and complex and strange.
- Foundation News
Updates to the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Application Process