Articles

Noemi Press values the daring, nurturing, guerilla, and extra nature of poetry, prioritizing publishing poetry that challenges, teaches, develops, and nourishes.

An interview with Jack White.

Michael Ondaatje is best known as a novelist, but his poems attest to his career-long instinct for invention.  

Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.

Aris Kian utilizes poetry as performance and a tool for community organizing, abolition, and liberation.

On loving poets through decades of poetry and living.

Gregg lived as she wrote, winnowing down life to bare essentials, which, in turn, made space for the visionary to reveal itself.

Her poems were lessons in how not to name things, but to instead evoke the outlines of what is seen.

Taha asks us to attend to what language itself crumbles before.

Poetry moves differently from every other art.

Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe negotiates the place of self in history through language shaped by emotional forces. 

On the imperfection of elegies. 

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the Poetry Foundation

Andres Cordoba reclaims language through family history, community, and a belief in poetry as an act of living.

An unlikely dissident inspired by the classics, Tomas Venclova remains Lithuania’s greatest poet.

DeeSoul Carson writes poetry at the intersection of witness and action, exploring joy, grief, and absurdity through bold rhetorical experimentation.

The Idea of an Entire Life, by Billy-Ray Belcourt, is at once a love letter to poetry and queer Indigeneity—and a sustained act of refusal. 

Poetry as devotion and survival—Jada Renée Allen writes toward liberation, memory, and imagined futures beyond violence.