Portrait of Marianne Moore by George Platt Lynes from the exhibit, “Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets” at the National Portrait Gallery, courtesy of the museum Historian and poet David ...

When the editors at Autumn House Press in Pittsburgh started looking around at various anthologies of contemporary poetry, ... a collection made up entirely of poems by contemporary American women.

New poetry by Lucie Brock-Broido, Harryette Mullen, Ann Lauterbach, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Brenda Hillman, Jorie Graham and others is featured in American Women Poets of the 21st Century: Where ...

The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry described Adrienne Rich as "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century." Rich died Tuesday at her home ...

Poetry is slower. It invites you to sit with it for a while,” she said. The post In striking art film, contemporary poets respond to the horrors of the Holocaust appeared first on The Times of ...

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he ...

With a grant from Monument Lab’s national public memory initiative Re:Generation, they created ConsenSIS as a means to document the local legacy of Black women poets, including groundbreaking 19th ...