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Get inspired to teach poetry, now back in person! The Poetry Foundation is holding its eighth annual Summer Poetry Teachers Institute at the University of Miami, July 10-14, 2023. This free,...

As a way of telling our stories, the language impulse to poetry is a primary expressive urge coming from our bones.

So far, in this essay, I’ve been tracing the practice of “unreadability” in poetry of the 20th century, focusing especially on US lineages of concretism and Language poetry. Part I...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment visit this link: Part I. If alliteration in general is the presence of the same sounds...

Normally (if one may use the word “normally” for a Walter Mittyesque scenario), if one of my literary heroes were to reach out to me, for any reason, I reckon...

In the previous installment of this essay, I gave a brief intro to the unreadable in poetry and why we might learn to love it. I focused especially on unreadable poetry’s life...

It’s easy to get lost in debates around form and content, or form and function, or form and freedom, or form and fill-in-the-blank—arguments for the importance of one side over...

Our desire is to maintain Harriet Monroe’s open door in the truest spirit of belonging.

चीन ओ अरब हमारा, हिन्दोस्ताँ हमारा रहने को घर नहीं है, सारा जहाँ हमारा खोली भी छिन गयी है, बैंचें भी छिन गयी हैं सड़कों पे घूमता है, अब कारवां हमारा Chin-o-Arab hamara, Hindustan...

Poetry reminds me, daily, of the simultaneous singularity and plurality of human experience: for all our differences, for the ways in which we have attached meaning to those differences, hated...