Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

During one of those unsatisfying Zoom happy hours that passed for social interaction in 2020, I shared a poem that reminded me of a lighter version of myself: “When I Tell My Husband I Miss the ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

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For years I have immersed myself in studying the craft of poetry, finding joy in comparing one thing to another, taking time to notice, to observe all the details that I can, reading as much as I ...

It was scary for me to realize that I had cut that part out of myself, and how bad that was for me.” When Muschenetz did start writing again, she thought she might write a collection of poems ...

All these factors combine to paint a picture where poetry is struggling for breath on its deathbed. As a young person in Karachi, however, I have often found myself in environments of “intense ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...