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Seamus Heaney’s letters present a mostly congenial poet with a dogged worth ethic and a desire to not be anyone's spokesman.
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Poem GuideBy Shanta Lee
Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body
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Learning PromptBy Naoko Fujimoto January 26, 2024
As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...
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EssayBy Joyelle McSweeney
Sleep collects the incandescent English-language poems of the multilingual Italian poet Amelia Rosselli.
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EssayBy A.E. Stallings
A new biography and a Collected Poems make the case for Anthony Hecht’s greatness.
Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Tyler MaloneWho are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
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Poem GuideBy CM Burroughs
There is lightness within these downtrodden lives!
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Poem GuideBy Stephanie Burt
A contemporary take on an ancient Arabic form.
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The process of knowing how to instrument this information and motivation was the logic behind grafting myself into the Poetry Foundation.
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January 22, 2024
Founded around a kitchen table in 2009, CantoMundo, which means “song-world” in Spanish, is a celebration of the worlds of song within Latinx communities, from its elders to its youth....
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January 8, 2024
University of Guam Press (UOG Press or “the Press”), which operates out of Mañgilao, Guam, is the US territory’s premier publishing house serving to educate the public on the unique...
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By Harriet Staff December 22, 2023
In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two) that brought them joy or comfort or pleasure this year. *** Holly Amos, Associate Editor American Inmate by Justin Rovillos MonsonRecently,...
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By A. Van Jordan December 18, 2023
Ed Roberson is a master poet. Let’s get that out of the way up front. In his early 80s, he’s 13 books in, and he continues to go strong; if...
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EssayBy Declan Ryan
Seamus Heaney’s letters present a mostly congenial poet with a dogged worth ethic and a desire to not be anyone's spokesman.
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Poem GuideBy Shanta Lee
Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body
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Learning PromptBy Naoko Fujimoto January 26, 2024
As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...
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EssayBy Joyelle McSweeney
Sleep collects the incandescent English-language poems of the multilingual Italian poet Amelia Rosselli.
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