Lucille Clifton:

Lucille Clifton:

Don't believe the literary establishment!

Dr. Maya C. Popa explores the fun side of #EmilyDickinson :

poetryfoundation.org/articles/16241… #poetrycommunity

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”

— Audre Lorde

I first read Helen Vendler in high school. She was above my reading level, but I felt I was being carried along by the clarity of her vision, even if I hadn't read half the texts she alluded to. She made me want to do this, read closely and carefully. She made me feel I could.…

Tracy K. Smith:

Tracy K. Smith:

I first read Helen Vendler in high school. She was above my reading level, but I felt I was being carried along by the clarity of her vision, even if I hadn't read half the texts she alluded to. She made me want to do this, read closely and carefully. She made me feel I could.…

Donna Tartt:

So excited to see a new poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil in this issue of The American Poetry Review ☀️:

Grateful to have new poems in the beautiful spring issue of Kenyon Review, including this hopeful one:

Friends, because the genocide is ongoing, & because so many poets have been censored & penalized for speaking out, I am going to host another poetry event for Palestine in a virtual setting in May or June (depends on availability). If you want to join us, write / DM here soon 💙

“But the world is sleeping in ignorance and error, sir, and we must be crowing cocks, and singing larks, and a raising sun to awake her.”

— Emily Dickinson (February 1850)

Anna Swir:

Allen Ginsberg:

Linda Pastan:

By Maggie Smith:

Grateful to have new poems in the beautiful spring issue of Kenyon Review, including this hopeful one:

'to find to find to find / that nakedness.'

Love this poem by Muriel Rukeyser so much.