round bodied booty, bounce a praise ballad. she break hold, turn whole in a twerk session. body charmed, spell-bent, toward progressing. Porsha Olayiwola is the author of the collection i shimmer ...

Join Nathan McClain and his students for their final Cave Canem Regional Workshop session, featuring a reading from both the students and McClain himself. We invite you to also join us for a ...

This evening there is a ruckus on Main St. I lift my head, and see Nancy who just came from The Pride event at the 11th St.

when girls like us asked them to leave. Praise the lovers who never returned. You helped us no longer be afraid of ghosts. For girls like us, the wound never fully heals. The gentle rhythm of its ...

I have folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer night, Assigning each brief storm its allotted space in time, Quietly pursuing catastrophic histories buried in my eyes. And yes, the world is not ...

Oh, teach me what it is The meadow flowers say As to and fro they nod Thro’ all the golden day.

Lupe Mendez is the author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), which won the 2019 John A. Robertson Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. An educator, curriculum writer and literary ...

Paisley Rekdal is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). An inaugural Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, Rekdal is the Guest Editor for ...

When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all ...

When I heard the bombing had begun I drove down to Keene and bought a 3x magnifying glass, a sketch book and drawing pencils. Then, I went out behind the apartments to snap off seed pods, weeds I ...

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Sarah Gambito discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work. Poets.org: ...

James Cervantes is the author of several poetry collections, including From Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2013) and Temporary Meaning (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2006), which was ...