K. Fischer, Eunsong Kim, and Rena Priest. Become a member to receive your digital and physical copy of the most recent issue of American Poets. Years ago, when I was a young Black woman barely ...

This year, Dallas named Mag Gabbert as the city’s second poet laureate. Gabbert will serve two years in the position and follows Dallas’ inaugural poet laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo.

“Were you to visit the new farm machinery display at a county fair in rural America, it’s possible that you might see what I have seen: a farmer missing a hand or an arm, assessing the same kind of ...

It was such a place of safety for me," she remembers thinking. It was a "core memory" and the first time the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States − the first Latina appointed to the role − ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators ...

The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...

In an extended interview, Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha discusses the situation in Gaza and his new book of poetry titled Forest of Noise.He fled Gaza in December after being detained ...

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