Poetry Roundup: The Road is Before Us!
Welcome to the Walt days of summer. Today we praise our expansive poetic father, Walt Whitman, whose birthday we just celebrated! More
Poetry Roundup: Banker’s Dozen
For those of you who haven’t already heard, the poet Joshua Clover and 11 University of California Davis students are being “threatened with 11 years each in jail and… More
Magazines, Small Presses, and Poetry Online
Also, in Poets.org related news, congratulations to Matthew Rasmussen for winning the 2012 Walt Whitman Award! Matt’s “book-length collection of poems Black Aperture, which will be published in the… More
It’s Spring and There Is Still More Work to Be Done
Spring has sprung. And we’re thinking about body again. When and how to walk it out into the sun and how to care for it. More
Poetry Roundup: Just the Quotes Edition
If you start out at a 7-11 and end up in your grandma’s arms, that’s not weird. More
The Moment of Change Is the Only Poem
On March 27, we lost poet, seminal essayist, and activist Adrienne Rich. The loss resonates all the more in the months when women’s rights are once more (and when… More
Chapbooks for Everyone!
Last week was New York’s 2012 Poetry Chapbook Festival. New Yorkers could buy chapbooks straight from the people who make them, see a ton of great poets read their… More
Writ in Water
Happy World Water Day. Here we’d like to drop for you some words that were, like our names, writ in and on water–about things you could do today to… More
What Poets Write
What do poets write and say when they don’t write pomes and poetics essays—or poems that ARE poetics essays? More
Poetry, Not Just a Book
Poetry is not just a book anymore. Beyond online journals, poems happily interact with film and video, music, dance, and, well, we’re here today to celebrate all the ways… More
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