#ICYMI The 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows have a special folio in the December 2018 issue of Poetry ! Exciting new work from Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, sam s...
ICYMI, our new partnership with Manual Cinema in honor of 100 years since the end of World War I is here! Three World War I Poems brings a selection of poems to life with innovative paper puppe...
Go down a rabbit hole with Franny Choi, Danez Smith, and guest Kimiko Hahn on the new episode of VS !
Excerpt from “LISP ” by sam sax , one of the 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship recipients. Read the complete poem in the September 2018 issue of Poetry magazi...
Carol Jago discusses how to make poetry engaging and alive for students on the latest Poetry Off the Shelf podcast. (The Poetry Foundation )
The schedule of this year’s CHICAGO POETRY BLOCK PARTY is now live! If you’re in Chicago, join us for this free celebration of poetry, music, art, and community at Austin Town Hall on Saturd...
From “To Float in the Space Between” by Terrance Hayes in the July/August issue of Poetry.
I didn’t want one child. I wanted a thousand. Because though you may try, you can’t kill all of them. My body couldn’t birth a thousand, so I didn’t even bring one here. I let you have th...
From “Elemental Gratitude ” by Eric Gansworth in the June 2018 Native Poets issue of Poetry.
Photographs by Sherwin Bitsui from the June 2018 Native Poets issue of Poetry.
“Quilts” by Layli Long Soldier from the June 2018 Native Poets issue of Poetry.
Angel Nafis is paying attention. She talks with VS cohosts Danez Smith and Franny Choi about learning to rescale her sight, getting through grad school with some new skills in her pocket, activat...
From “We Build a City” by Kinga Tóth , published in the May 2018 issue of Poetry .
“Series of Pictures ” by Joel Lipman , published in the May 2018 issue of Poetry .
A selection from Dora Malech ’s “TEST ” in the May 2018 issue of Poetry .
A selection from Kristen Renee Miller ’s “A Billion Things in One ,” an erasure of the article “YesJulz, Snapchat Royalty” by Max Berlinger, which appeared in the New York Times on Jun...
In this startling animation of Muriel Rukeyser ’s “Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars) ,” two lives unfold in split screen, one during the tumultuous world events of 1968, the...
In the second installment of Word: Collected Poetry Trace DePass contemplates how poetry can entrap, rather than release, past traumas and hardships. Filmed on location at Kenkeleba House Ga...
“Free” by Jaiden, age ten, from the Snow City Arts folio in the April 2018 issue of Poetry magazine .
In case you missed it, the second episode of VS Season Two is a recording from the AWP live show. Cohost Franny Choi and Danez Smith team up with guests Angel Nafis and Hanif Abdurraqib to...