Haleh Liza Gafori is an Iranian American translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in New York City. Her book ...

And all that remains for me is to follow a violet darkness on soil where myths splinter and crack. Yes, love was time, and it too splintered and cracked like the face of our country.

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ The Lonely Street ” by William Carlos Williams. What do you notice about the poem?

Some things are better off unnamed? I can’t help but reason with your ash. Names become the first steppings into ruin, yes? Name a thing, and you’ve marked it for the end, of Imagination? And unless ...

Nicolás Heredia y Mota, a poet, novelist, journalist, literary critic, and revolutionary, was born in Baní, Santo Domingo ...

Copyright © 2024 by Ekaterina Derysheva, Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M. F. Platt. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 16, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

The Poetry Circus is a free event for all ages. It will include Merry-Go-Round Rides, Poetry readings by over 40 well known poets, tables housing several Los Angeles publishers and literary ...

Poet Pamela Laskin will be the featured guest poet for the 52nd annual City College Poetry Festival held at the Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall. Upwards of 150 students from as many as 50 ...

Meg Day grew up in California’s Bay Area and received a BA from the University of California, San Diego, an MFA from Mills College, and a PhD from the University of Utah, where Day was a ...

Hildegarde Flanner, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 3, 1899, was a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her poetry collections include At the Gentle Mercy of Plants: Essays and Poems (John Daniel & ...

It’s not only mine—we’re in the same current ...

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award will be judged by Roger Sedarat and the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize will be judged by Anna Kraczyna, Jennifer ...