Now, during his Guest Editor Q&A in January 2022, Joseph O. Legaspi described how you infuse what he called “nonpolitical elements” into your work, including recipes and menus, particularly in Loves ...

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Caribbean poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press, 2020); coeditor of ...

Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River, I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream, Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings, We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred ...

Since 2018, the Academy of American Poets has invited twelve new Guest Editors to each curate a month of Poem-a-Day, the original and only daily poetry series sharing previously unpublished poems by ...

Let’s say something about distances that escape through the body. About what the body needs to say as its joints go silent. Let’s say the body needs to remain quiet to say something about distances.

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

A sincere man am I Born where the palm trees grow, And l long before I die My soul’s verses to bestow. No boundaries bind my heart I belong to every land: I am art among art, A peak among peaks I ...

Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men’s are, dead. Dull ...

ARIANA BENSON’s collection Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) has received the LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE. This $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published ...

let me hold your hand when I say this [the words are just words] is a new play by Nile Harris meditating on the ordinary poetics of desire and faith. The play is a text to be read simultaneously by ...