In her debut collection, poet torrin a. greathouse explores what it means to be both trans and disabled, and the ways beauty can be a trap for trans women — so why not write towards ugliness?

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

In their fourth collection of poems, 'Bluff,' Danez Smith's writing pulses and pops, exploring ruptures we all recognize ...

Poem by Rochester area college student Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay ByVivian Stolz November 15, 2022 at 12:00 AM Share News reporting I want to drink the sunlight, pour it in a cup ...

Oshodin’s volume of poetry is perforated throughout with a haunting beauty – whether he is writing about his daughter, Kika Esohe whom the book is dedicated to, who “came with a smile ...

Books Beauty and Violence Paisley Rekdal’s poetry explores the effect humans have on the natural world—and vice versa.

Poet Tracy K. Smith's three favorite poems of 2011 blur the private and public, the personal and political, and will refresh how you look at language and the world.

That’s OK. The beauty of poetry is its universal appeal—the most famous poems ever written are just as enjoyable to newcomers as they are to aficionados.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

It may not be published on a piece of paper, but the presence of poetry is interwoven throughout our days, author Sylvia Vardell writes.