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We’re thrilled to announce some new members of the Poetry magazine team!

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here Parts I and II of “Murmurations” focused on the colonial violence of metaphorizing the heart and the...

Sitting in my room alone, a 12-year-old Black girl in Shaker Heights, Ohio, reading My House and Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, my world expanded. There were words for...

For our November issue, we are looking for original poems that engage directly with notions of lineage and influence.

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I’m stuck in the elevator of a storage facility with four movers, and, when an hour passes, I climb...

The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 55 nonprofit organizations that received over $1,600,000 in funding in our spring 2023 grant cycle. Selected from 194 grant applications, this robust...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. The part where we state some of the ecological issues within the State of the field. The US publishing industry...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment, visit this link: Part I. The word arrhythmic, from the Greek arrhythmos or without rhythm, did not always have...

I thought I knew something about loss. Fireworks burst over the Salvadoran coast, blue, red and green, each pulse a heartbeat, a flower blooming then wilting, the spit and crackle...