Articles
Seeing a poem as a kernel in which a civilization is embedded.
Jayne Cortez riffed on jazz, the blues, and R&B in poems whose "supersurrealism" sought to transform reality.
Crouching, touching it with my fingertips, a sizzle of electric cold raced through my nervous system. It was, I realized, deadalive.
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Averill CurdyAn exploration of the human imagination, with memories of a lost world.
Poem GuideBy Robin EkissThe poet puts her vast imagination on display at the beach.
Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-MotlThe Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred.
- EssayBy Wang Ping
Seeing a poem as a kernel in which a civilization is embedded.
- EssayBy David Grundy
Jayne Cortez riffed on jazz, the blues, and R&B in poems whose "supersurrealism" sought to transform reality.
- Press Release
Recognizing poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book
- EssayBy Leath Tonino
Crouching, touching it with my fingertips, a sizzle of electric cold raced through my nervous system. It was, I realized, deadalive.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Scott ChallenerAn introduction to the folio “E. Ethelbert Miller: Friendship Is What Keeps Us Whole.”
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Jameson FitzpatrickWhen, long after puberty had done its work, I was finally able to re-admit my original understanding of myself to myself, I saw my self-loathing in a new light.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Willie PerdomoI’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Ethan ChuaTranslation: an act of estranging magic.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Chloe MartinezMira—also known as Mirabai—is always talking to or about God.
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Adrian MatejkaIt falls on poets—the original, unflinching documentarians—to renew their obligations as keepers of history through language.
Grantee-Partner Profile
The American Poetry Museum demonstrates the power of poetry in performance and its written form while providing a place to interact with art rather than reflect passively.
- Press Release
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers, and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.
- EssayBy Hannah Bonner
Donika Kelly’s third collection revels in life on the other side of survival.
- EssayBy Ryan Teitman
The table has been turned into places mundane and profound, bewitching and bedeviling.
- EssayBy Amber Tamblyn
Their love made no mistakes.
