Hirsch suggests that the poets’ individual approaches to their American poems could be graphed on a Cartesian coordinate system, with introspections on the nature of the self, the soul, and God on the ...

A national and member-supported organization, the Academy of American Poets annually awards more than $1.3 million to more than 200 poets at various stages of their careers.

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Founded in 1934, the Academy of American Poets is one of the nation’s leading literary organizations and the largest funder of poets. Its new leader wants to emphasize and expand the linguistic ...

Author Andrea Gibson, best known for their spoken word poetry and LGBTQ activism, died after a four-year battle with ovarian ...

Michael Lind, a journalist, poet, and novelist, skewers the current state of American poetry and places the blame squarely at the feet of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and American academics who have ...

A glance at the March/April issue of The American Poetry Review: The American prose poem“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David ...

This encyclopedia provides a surprisingly complete collection of entries on American poetry and poets from the early colonial to the contemporary era. Included are both major and lesser-known poets ...

AMERICAN literature, excellent as it is by way of its poetry, is excellent much more by way of its prose. Received opinion, however, stands for the converse. Conscious that in emotion, invention ...

Terrance Hayes asks in WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry (Penguin, 214 pp., paperback, $20), a new book of essays, illustrations and prose ...

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

He’s the Dark Prince of American poetry, a writer of glittering malice, one who cuts against the grain of almost every variety of community feeling. He’s not a poet for everyone, ...