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Through imagining and acting on the imaginary, poetry can help make an existence to live in, thrive in, and appreciate differently.

To call a literary work “unreadable” is to make a rather flexible aesthetic judgment. Most commonly, one means they didn’t like that work, found it too boring, too gruesome, badly...

In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two, or more) that brought them joy, or comfort, or pleasure this year. *** Janet Cheung, Web Producer I would...

Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. To read the first two installments visit these links: Part I and Part II. The ice caps are melting: criticism has failed....

The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 39 nonprofit organizations that received funding in this round of grants, as well as the 9 organizations that were awarded special grants...

Part of the appeal of poetry as criticism, which I discussed in my last post, is the idea of a poem that can explain itself, with no intervention needed from...

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The lyric I is the specter and the muse of contemporary American poetry.

Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she...

Uniformity cannot exist in a typeface inspired by humanity.