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Through imagining and acting on the imaginary, poetry can help make an existence to live in, thrive in, and appreciate differently.

The lyric I is the specter and the muse of contemporary American poetry.

“November has come to the forest”

A peek “behind the scenes” at how you, reader of the Poem of the Day, get “World Egg Day,” “National Sea Serpent Day,” and your monthly U.F.O. sighting anniversary.  

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

To let someone into your metaphor so deep as to touch the symbol of your most emotional self is a great risk. The reader of a poem takes great risk...

I recently learned that the word “curate” comes from “curare,” a Latin root meaning “to attend and to care for.” I’ve long had an aversion to the terminology of “curating”...

“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...