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In October 2019, there were shootings in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Long Beach, and Kansas City. Bernie Sanders had a heart attack and Simone Biles won her twenty-first medal at the world...

Although love is less frequent in my mother tongue, it lasts longer. 

I Woke Up and it was political I made coffee and the coffee was political I took a shower and the water was.                      ...

Sit still. Avoid the “parade of the world.” Difficult?

In part one, I explored how poetry’s political power lies in its ability to transform the reader, focusing in particular on performance. In this section, I turn my attention to...

The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce the 12 finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. Thank you to all who submitted applications and shared their...

In 2020, as one of the judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, I was lucky enough to be invited to interview the poet Rachel Long, whose debut collection, My...

Poetry in print can assume a quiet death-like existence

Art exists in the space of transformation.                            It lives in our minds and bodies intimately, ready to be called upon in our time of need: whether when we recall...

When my bilingual poetry collection, Boomerang/Bumerán, was published last year, I felt a tremendous sense of gratification at seeing one of its central elements—the use of non-gendered language, particularly in Spanish—recognized, and...