Stephanie McCarter on her feminist translation of Ovid.
The DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark finds his native language.
Will Alexander on poetry, consciousness, and the energy of language.
A year before the 1992 LA Uprising, a Black teenager named Latasha Harlins was killed in a corner store. Concentrate, Courtney Faye Taylor’s debut, revisits that tragedy—and the life that...
Alice Notley on her life with Ted Berrigan.
Rio Cortez on Afropioneerism out West.
A conversation with Adrian Matejka, Poetry’s new editor.
Garrett Caples wrestles with “the impervious world” in his latest collection, Lovers of Today.
A conversation with Patricia Smith, winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Adrian Matejka on his new book, Somebody Else Sold the World.