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Dr. Randall Horton believes in poetry’s ability to transform lives. While incarcerated, he discovered the poem “Skinhead” by Patricia Smith. He credits his experience reading that poem with opening a...

I now realize that growth cannot happen overnight, nor should it. It must be built with the goal of sustainability. As anyone in nonprofit work can tell you, burnout plagues...

In 2016, poets Sheila Black and Kathi Wolfe had a conversation discussing the barriers faced by poets with disabilities. Kathi questioned why there couldn’t be a non-profit focused specifically on...

I don’t know how to make a home. It feels jarring to say that, but I realize I’ve always had my eye on the next thing, the next project, and...

Nearly everything I know about football can be summed up in two profoundly funny and funnily profound poems by Mary Ruefle “Elegy for a Game” and “Super Bowl.” Though neither explicitly mentions it, these poems...

And so now, here I was, shouldering all that and now shouldering an enormous magazine. How could I make a safe space for myself, for others?

My father used to read to me at bedtime when I was a kid. One of my favorite books was Louis Untermeyer’s anthology, The Golden Treasury of Poetry, with Blake, Dickinson,...

The Poetry Foundation is excited to announce the 12 finalists for the 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships! Thank you to everyone who applied and shared their work...

When Francisco Aragón joined the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) in 2003, there was no literary component. To address the gap, he established the Andrés Montoya...

The first time I went to New York, or maybe the second, I read for the Segue series in the Zinc Bar: low stage, red velvet curtains—a windowless sexual basement,...