Hirshfield has just published two new books: a collection of her own poetry called The ... They allow us to feel how shared our fates are. I think compassion, in a way, is one of the most ...

The way loneliness skulks in one of Elizabeth Acevedo’s poems probably would have felt familiar even before the pandemic forced us into more isolating situations. Beginning with the line “it ...

Those poems that ... make up our city,” she says. “Poetry that is discovered in unexpected places like a crowded subway car or a city bus can provide a window into another way of thinking ...

And I think the way in which you make that poem your own is something that's really, like, powerful for judges to see. Our masters always tried to hide book learning from our eyes. Knowledge didn ...

Annie Polland had an immediate thought after she heard Ken Cuccinelli’s revision of the famous poem inscribed on the ... “Clearly, he did not take part in our curriculum,” said Polland ...

Gonzalez joins Kevin Young to discuss “Gathering Apricots,” by Milosz, and her own poem “Failed Essay on Privilege.” The New Yorker Radio Hour Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final ...

the way we think about our work.” It inspired them to ask Limón if she would jot down the poem in her own handwriting. Limón wrote “In Praise of Mystery” in tidy script on a sheet of ...