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Bamboo Ridge Press is Hawai‘i's longest-running independent literary small press, celebrated for publishing one of the nation's oldest continuously running literary journals.

His cultural activism made him one of the greatest supporters of Filipino poets and a beloved mentor to many.

Trustees celebrated the 20th anniversary of Poetry Out Loud at the National Finals

What is the human meaning of a tombstone anyhow? 

Mendoza Receives a $20,000 Prize as Champion

On there being no such thing as a “correct” or “definitive” translation.

Joining together in the place of a poem

Dario Bellezza scandalized Italy with unabashedly queer poetry about cruising and AIDS. Nearly thirty years after his death, a new translation brings his work into English. 

Reading Between the Lines (RBL) aims to mitigate the effects of institutional racism and mass incarceration by exposing people involved in the justice system to a lifeline of culture, conversation, analysis, and exploration of works of poetry and other creative genres. 

It seemed to me a kind of magic to take a made thing and make it almost unrecognizably new. 

Allow yourself to be nervous. Allow yourself to doubt the work you’re doing even as you’re doing it.

To translate an ancient language—one that feels estranged, unfamiliar, and even a bit sentimental—into English has always been a challenge. 

All art, but especially poetry, strives for communication and understanding.

Celebration of Illinois Arts also marks the creation of the Illinois Creative Caucus and 60th Anniversary of Illinois Arts Council 

Recent contributors share new and old favorites. 

Anything, in their hands, could be shaped into art.

David Trinidad and Amy Gerstler in conversation. 

Words of the People provides opportunities to learn, share, and publish Indigenous language creative works.

Poets encouraged to carry forward the incredible work of Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago Public Library, and the Poetry Foundation to bring poetry to the people—apply from April 17 to May 29, 2025.

One could almost draw an analogy between relative pitch in music and a similar concept in translation, where context is everything.