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If it resists me, I know it’s real ~Frank Bidart A few years ago, I made a crucial change in my manuscript, the kind that returns one’s entire body of work to...

The Poetry Foundation began posting regular Foundation Updates as part of its Commitment to Our Community in 2020; since then, these updates have served as ways for the Foundation to...

When my father explained that I was named for an elevated poetic form, that an entire region’s poetic pride was embedded in my name, ghazals became a source of wonder...

Obsidian Literary and the Poetry Foundation are partnering to present O|Sessions Black Listening — A Performance Masterclass, a free two-day virtual workshop on the role of listening and improvisation in...

I had this terrible need to explain.  I wrote the first post not to explain myself. I wrote it as the drive away from, the drive referring back to, the terrible...

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to welcome new staff members since the last update, all of whom bring distinct experiences and perspectives to the work being done and the work...

“For the archive!” is a rallying cry that is handed down from poet to poet at Naropa University, the disembodied poetics brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and other outrider...

I am 21 years old and I have never published a poem. More importantly, I am 21 years old and I do not have a driver’s license, and my best...

We invited contributors from the April “Exophony” issue to tell us about a favorite poem in their “original” language, or in their “adopted” literary language.

Impatience does not stir the curtains, a bed is neither irritable nor rapacious. Whatever disquiet we sense in a room we have brought there.                  ...