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- Poem GuideBy Peter O’LearyT.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is one of the most famous poems in English. It’s one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry. It may have even invented modern poetry...
- Poem SamplerBy L. RenéeCornelius Eady is a poet who has charted great depths of personal and family histories, of musical landscapes, and of sociocultural influences. Eady’s work explores class and racial disparities, ...
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Since 1995, Street Poets Inc. has been advocating for juvenile justice reform through poetry and personal narratives. Its creative youth intervention efforts and restorative, community-based solutions...
- EssayBy James D. Sullivan“A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center” is on view at the Poetry Foundation through September 14, 2024.The Chicago Poetry Center traces its origins to a headline that appeared in the October...
- InterviewBy James D. SullivanTo celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Poetry Center, and to mark the opening of the Poetry Foundation's latest exhibition, “A Bigger Table: 50 Years of the Chicago Poetry Center,“ on view...
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By Eirill Alvilde Falck“North is not final,” “In another time,” and “the knife soars soundless” are translations from Hjerteskog/Syđänmettä (Heart of the Forest/Syđänmettä), M. Seppola Simonsen’s award-winning debut poetry collection. The...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Brian SneedenMy introduction to this poetry was a goatskin: a five-foot parchment, on one side of which are handwritten fragments of oral poems, interviews, folk song lyrics, and archives...
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By Samiya BashirMy responsibility as a poet, an artist, is to not look away. —Nikky Finney, Fire & Ink keynote, 2009We live in a time of tempest, physically and culturally careening toward the precipice of—something. We find it hard...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Kim MooreIn 2000, I began a music degree at Leeds College of Music, studying trumpet performance. I lived in a shared house with five other students—a classical singer, a flautist, and three guitarists. I...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Steven G FullwoodThe Fire & Ink writers festivals felt like a Black, queer wonderland for people who loved writing, editing, critiquing, promoting, or publishing books. Like many of those who attended these festivals...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Adrian MatejkaEach summer in Chicago, when this city’s particular combination of heat and humidity comes for everyone (as it is doing right now), I am reminded of the air-conditioned reprieve of the movie theater...Grantee-Partner Profile
As a Black woman poet who became the first to serve as the Texas Poet Laureate, Amanda Johnston was familiar with the joys and challenges of building a literary career. She envisioned a community...