10 Modern and Contemporary Poems by Queer Writers
Love poems, political declarations, lyrical confessions, and formal experiments by Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Ocean Vuong, Eileen Myles, and more.
10 Prose Poems That Think Outside the Line
Poems that blur the boundaries of form, by Claudia Rankine, Louise Glück, Victoria Chang, Arthur Rimbaud, Layli Long Soldier, Mary Ruefle, and more.
A Reader’s Guide to Poetry for National Poetry Month
Read poems, learn poetic forms, and discover writers in this National Poetry Month roundup.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination
Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.
The Poet Who Writes About Vietnam in Hebrew
Vaan Nguyen’s poetry examines exile and memory through the lens of her family’s journey from Vietnam to Israel.
Yeats and the Occult Imagination
Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.
Poetry’s Vital Role in Politics
Like Walt Whitman before them, Joy Harjo and Amanda Gorman are reimagining what it means to be a poet in this democratic republic.
10 Contemporary Pastoral Poems
Poems that reflect and reinterpret the pastoral tradition, by Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Rebecca Lehmann, Sam Sax, Natasha Trethewey, and more.
Rebecca Lehmann on Breaking the Rules of Poetry
An interview with writer and poet Rebecca Lehmann, who finds splendid things can follow when she stretches the rules of craft.
10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets
Read these recursive, nineteen-line poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Paisley Rekdal, William Logan, Agha Shahid Ali, and more.