Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

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It has been many years, many publications, numerous awards, and seven poetry collections later since my poem, “Queen Anne’s Lace,” was published by The Christian Science Monitor, a poem for ...

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Chimwemwe Undi is a Winnipeg-based poet, editor and lawyer. She was the Winnipeg poet laureate for 2023 and 2024. She won the ...

Taylor followed up perhaps the greatest year in modern pop star history with another dominant period of incredible numbers ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

The streets of Mile High are becoming more poetic with a rise in on-demand poetry from several poets in Denver.