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24/7 Relentless Careerism
BY Jim Behrle
How you can become the most important poet in America overnight.
The Soul That Grows in Darkness
BY The Editors
To celebrate the Oscars, the editors present classic and contemporary poems about the movies.
Good Poems About Ugly Things
BY Molly Young
Is Frederick Seidel an exquisite misogynist?
Nevermoreland
BY Abigail Deutsch
In Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe gets the funerals he deserves.
In a Relationship
BY Tao Lin
An emotionally devastating analysis of five love poems for Valentine’s Day.
Inventing Michael Field
BY Michelle Lee
Can two women write like one man?
Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense
BY Ross Simonini
The Chicago poet’s overlooked adventures in linguistic anarchy.
In Memoriam: Ruth Lilly, 1915-2009
BY The Editors
The staff and trustees of the Poetry Foundation are greatly saddened by Ms. Lilly's death and honor her extraordinary legacy.
The Poetry of Deep Winter
BY Annie Finch
A selection of poems to help you get through the rest of the chill, frost, and darkness.
2000-2009: The Decade in Poetry
BY The Editors
How has poetry changed in the past ten years?
The Robert Burns Zombie Cottage of Hotlanta
BY Nick Marino
The Scottish poet at home in another time and place.
The Good, the Bad, and the Good Bad
BY Abigail Deutsch
Our ongoing fascination with terrible poetry.
The Cranberry Cantos
BY The Editors
Thanksgiving poems for family and friends.
Washington, DC, Poetry Tour
BY The Editors
Our nation’s capital through the eyes of its great poets.
Absolute Necessities
BY Jeff Gordinier
The recession confession of a poetry shopaholic.
Poetry and Project Runway
BY Stephen Burt
Should book critics take their cues from Tim Gunn?
James Schuyler in the Spotlight
BY Eric Ziegenhagen
A New York School poet with a flair for the dramatic.
The Poetry of Autumn
BY Annie Finch
Forget spring. Fall is the season for poetry.
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
BY Eileen Myles, CA Conrad
Human. Animal. Gay. Straight. Poetry.
Ten Poems I Love to Teach
BY Eric Selinger
Surefire poetry hits for the classroom and beyond.
BY Christian Wiman
Remembering Ruth Lilly.
BY Chen Li
Possessed by Chinese characters.
BY Daisy Fried
Jasmine Donahay’s Self-portrait as Ruth, Ciaran Carson’s Collected Poems, Chelsey Minnis’s Poemland, and Peter Campion's The Lions.
BY Ilya Kaminsky, Adam Kirsch
Is true translation impossible?
BY Durs Grünbein
Unpopular answers to poetry questions.
Long Sight and Reading Glasses
BY Fiona Sampson
Rachel Zucker’s Museum of Accidents, Joan Houlihan’s The Us, and Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water.
