I have been reading Jane Yeh ever since I came across her first book, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), some years ago. Since then, she has published two more books: Ninjas (Carcanet 2012) and Discipline ...

Congratulations to Cheswayo Mphanza, who was selected by judge Alexis Pauline Gumbs as the winner of the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest! About Mphanza’s winning poems, “Notes Towards a ...

Poetry has the ability to give us strength in our darkest times and reflect our joy in our happiest moments. For evidence, just look at the outpouring of gratitude for Amanda Gorman — President ...

[Editor’s Note: Frances McCue is a poet, writer, co-founder of nonprofit community writing center Hugo House, and a teaching professor at the University of Washington. She reads this piece in a ...

Over the years, I haven’t chosen more than a few poems about the writing of poetry mostly because if you don’t write poems, you might not be interested. But I do like this poem about poets by Richard ...

She said the title of her book was inspired by her final project in college, “Lay Me Down Among the Words.” “It was always my dream to make it into a book,” she said. “The first section of the book is ...

“Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower / and snowshoes,” Ada Limón declares, in “The End of Poetry”—a fitting poem to mark a year that words largely seemed to fail. For all the coinages and ...

At the annual Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Saratoga Springs' annual poetry worship service, worshippers share poems that got them through the year instead of listening to a sermon. One ...

Nicole “Nic” Jean Turner, one of the organizers of the Dirty Gerund Poetry Series at Ralph's Rock Diner, is Worcester's new ...