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"Joseph's appearance in my life meant guidance, in everything from simple everyday matters to bigger moral issues," Mikhail Baryshnikov recalls. That's Joseph Brodsky he's referring to, the Russian dissident poet...

Gucci S/S 2017 Ready-to-Wear show in Milan. Is poetry the hot new soundtrack for fashion? Earlier this year, during New York Fashion Week, designer Tracy Reese asked four poets–Aja Monet,...

Artwork by Clay Hickson. Cover art by Victoria Martinez. In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer you, dear readers, a free download of the April 2017 issue of Poetry magazine! Our newly redesigned app...

Over the weekend, the Guardian reported on the death of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He was 84. Yevtushenko was widely popular in Russia, and as the Guardian reminds us: "At...

At New York Mag's style blog The Cut, Maggie Nelson talks with Maggie Lange about the "daring intimacy" of her work, its shareable qualities ("everyone always seems to be lending...

1 Last November, on election day, on a flight from New York to Chicago, I reread William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All.  I planned to assign it for a graduate poetics...

We hope you like poetry (and we know you do, dear reader) because starting tomorrow National Poetry Month kicks off! As we've done in years past, we'll be publishing a...

The Poetry Center in Tucson, Arizona has posted a recap of their 2016 poetry series that featured a lineup of remarkable poets engaging with ideas and concerns around the topic...

Adam Bradley's new book, The Poetry of Pop, makes "the case for taking pop songs seriously—without being too serious about it." At the Paris Review, Bradley invites poets to pick...

Poet Layli Long Soldier joins On Being host Krista Tippett to discuss her experience as United States citizen and citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Long Soldier's debut poetry collection,...