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Chicago-born poet and performer with a national platform in literary and spoken-word arts will serve as the city's creative ambassador. 

A reading list of our 2025 features. 

Nine Mile Arts brings great writing to readers without consideration of school, style, or form, with a special focus on Central New York. Through its Propel Poetry initiative, Nine Mile Arts is committed to publishing books by first-rate poets with disabilities.

Sometimes, choosing the “wrong” word can reveal what the “right” one can’t.

Lisa Olstein on archival sources, erasure, and mythology in Distinguished Office of Echoes.

Joe Brainard's C Comics ran for only two issues, but it remains a testament to the absorbing pleasure of making art with your friends. 

Writing the Grotesque

She was a winning combination of sassy humor and serious engagement. 

Trans Poetics Archive is dedicated to making trans narratives more accessible through collection, archival, and contemporary publication.

There’s something fundamental—like a heartbeat or a nursery rhyme—about the beating, ballad-ish quatrain.

Three options for your own poems.

Poetry is the world in action, enacted as images, rhymes, anapests, and anaphoras. 

On Irma Pineda's trilingual Stolen Flower.

A new biography of Denis Johnson chronicles a life riven by "grace and incredible harm."

Announcing Fall 2025 Grant Awardees

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.  

Recognizing poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book

Programmatic Updates at the Poetry Foundation 

Crouching, touching it with my fingertips, a sizzle of electric cold raced through my nervous system. It was, I realized, deadalive.