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Stopping By
During this extraordinary moment in time, we asked writers, musicians, curators, and innovators to reflect on influence, memory, language, shared spaces, and the power of poetry to bring us together.
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Stopping By
During this extraordinary moment in time, we asked writers, musicians, curators, and innovators to reflect on influence, memory, language, shared spaces, and the power of poetry to bring us together.
Song Cycle
In this new monthly series, poets, writers, and musicians trace the long relationship between poetry and music, exploring how individual composers and musicians have transformed poems into musical works—from Renaissance song to twentieth-century jazz to the latest contemporary music.
First Loves, Remembered
Poets reflect on the poems that first captured their imaginations.
The Poet’s Nightstand
In The Poet's Nightstand, we ask poets to talk about five books that have made a big impression on them recently.
Visiting Poet
In this series, we introduce readers to poets from around the world through a selection of poems and a brief essay on their life and work.
In Their Own Words
Poets and translators on their work.
Reading Through The Decades
The Poetry Society of America celebrates its 110th Anniversary, and to mark the occasion, we have invited 11 acclaimed poets to help us create Reading Through the Decades, a video survey of American poetry over the past 110 years.
Reading in the Dark
Poets reflect on the poems they return to in difficult times.
Poetry & Environmental Justice
The Poetry Society of America and Greenpeace USA invited eight poets to reflect on a poem that has shaped their understanding of environmental justice, including how it feels to live through the climate crisis, the lived experience of communities in harm’s way, or the power structures that reinforce environmental inequality.
Saying His Name
Terrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry.
Poetry & Protest
Curated reading lists presented as part of the Poetry Coalition's annual theme.
Poetry & Democracy
Essays and poems on democracy, presented as part of the Poetry Coalition's annual theme.
Interviews
Conversations with poets, editors, and artists.
Tributes
Remembrances, appreciations, and remarks.
Latinx-Caribbean Poetry
Poems and notes by participants in the 2017 Latinx-Caribbean Poetry Conference. Co-presented with the Gallatin Writing Program and CantoMundo.
Latino/a Poets Roundtable
Discussions on Latinx poetry in the 21st Century.
New American Poets
Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from 2003-2015.
Black Poets Speak Out
Poets, activists, educators, and organizers on the #blackpoetsspeakout project.
Old School
Poets on poets and poems from the past.
Site Visits
Interviews with poetry editors of online publications.
Ars Poetica
Rachel Eliza Griffiths' photographs of poets accompanied by a poem.
On Poetry
Thematic essays on beauty, politics, poetic forms, and more.
Red, White, & Blue
Poets on poetry's role in the political landscape.
First Loves
Poets on the first poems they adored. Edited by Carmela Ciuraru, and expanded into her anthology First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems that Captivated and Inspired Them.
One Word
Poets on their favorite word. Essays selected from the anthology One Word, edited by Molly McQuade.
Q & A: American Poetry
Poets answer the question: "What's American about American Poetry?"
Q & A: Chapbook Publishers
Publishers, printers, and editors discuss their process.
Remembering Katrina
Poems in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Yet Do I Marvel
Poets on the history and current state of African-American poetry.