Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

Alike the bitter cup of grief, Alike the draught of bliss, Its progress leaves but moment brief For baffled lips to kiss.

Blues as art as theme as exhibition Up on a midtown metropolis edifice Billboard façade 50 feet tall thirty feet wide: BLUE ...

We are pleased to announce the judges of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the 2025 James Laughlin Award.

I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems I have not written would reach from here to the California coast if you laid them end to end. And if you stacked them up, the poems I have not written would sway ...

I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets.

has only good news for my body / and for my mind, she warms them ...

Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and ...

the quietness / where the child is—... “Gennady Aygi (1934-2006) is a poet I often turn to. He’s brilliantly mysterious, not a poet of easy wisdom; his sort of depth is needed greatly at times like ...