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.

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 ...

An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets. University of Iowa Press, $24.95 (266pp) ISBN 978-0-87745-948-4.

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 ...

Artist in the Archive: Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters When: 7 p.m. June 18 Where: Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury ...

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 ...

World-renowned American poet, author, and educator Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81. According to AP, Giovanni died with her lifelong partner, Virginia (Ginney) Fowler, by her side, which ...

Artist in the Archive: Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-Imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters When: 7 p.m. June 18 Where: Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury ...

In the field of contemporary poets, these poets walk with élan. The female body which is seen as a handicap in a patriarchal society destabilises the hierarchy when it comes to the domain of poetry.

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 ...