Ten-Minute Poems by a Mixologist-Writer & Her Daughters
Read poems inspired by 10*10*10, our ten-day video series, featuring prompts for writing poems in ten minutes.
Poetry Trading Cards Paired with Audio Recordings: A New Online Exhibition
Posted Mar 26, 2020
Fact-Simile’s poetry trading cards meet up with Poets House archival recordings in this new online exhibition.
From the Archives: Erica Hunt, Eileen Myles, Brenda Hillman & Alicia Ostriker Talk Feminism
By Suzanne Wise
Posted Mar 19, 2020
Listen back to 2002 for inspiration on healing the world, getting tossed out of rooms, warding off creeps, and defying the poetry police.
Tracing Black Speculative Poetics: Afrofuturism, the Supernatural & Afrosurrealism
By Isabella Vento
Posted Feb 27, 2020
Investigate the future, the supernatural, and the absurdities of “right now” as envisioned by Black poets, artists and scholars.
From the Archives: Michael S. Harper on Robert Hayden—Student of Paradox, Decoder of Stereotypes
Posted Feb 6, 2020
Read Michael S. Harper’s remarks on the work of Robert Hayden, the first Black U.S. Poet Laureate (then called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress)
from South Dakota to the Art of Ed Colker: An Interview with Kathleen Norris
By Suzanne Wise, Staff Writer
Posted Jan 14, 2020
Poet Kathleen Norris describes her collaborations with artist Ed Colker, including from South Dakota, a collection featuring his prints and her poems.
“I am out of place they say” – Now digitized: from South Dakota by Kathleen Norris & Ed Colker
By Suzanne Wise, Staff Writer
Posted Dec 5, 2019
A portfolio of letterpress-printed poems by Kathleen Norris and hand-colored lithographs by Ed Colker make an arresting journey through the plains.
Audio Roundup: Poetry & Science, Favorite Poems, Supernatural Poetry & More
Posted Nov 14, 2019
Listen to Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Forrest Gander, Bryan Thao Worra, Linda Addison, Liz Howard, Robert Pinsky, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass & more!
Building Blocks for Global Citizens of Tomorrow: Mahogany L. Browne on Her Woke Baby Book Fair
By Rico Frederick
Posted Nov 4, 2019
Browne talks with Rico Frederick about her book fair project to “build the libraries of the next community activists, political leaders, and educators.”
“You Shoot at Yourself, America”—Newly Digitized: Yevtushenko’s Flowers and Bullets & Freedom to Kill
Posted Oct 29, 2019
Released by City Lights in 1970, this chapbook by Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko reflects on the tumultuous unrest of Vietnam War–era America.