agendaangle-downangle-leftangleRightarrow-downarrowRightbarscalendarcaret-downcartchildrenhighlightlearningResourceslistmapMarkeropenBookp1pinpoetry-magazineprintquoteLeftquoteRightslideshowtagAudiotagVideoteenstrash-o
Skip to Content

Articles

Begin in delight, end in wisdom.

Explore All Articles
Essay
By Ed Simon

Christian Wiman's Zero at the Bone blends memoir and theology, criticism and poetry into a mystical commonplace book for Armageddon.

  • Learning Prompt
    By Nathan Xavier Osorio November 21, 2023

    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”James BaldwinWriting poems can be the articulation of a kind of listening. We listen to the poems we’ve dog-eared in...

  • Essay
    By Maya C. Popa

    A new biography of Jane Kenyon frees the poet from the shadow of her famous older husband.

  • Essay
    By John Vincler

    Brian Teare's Poem Bitten by a Man is a hybrid book that presses language into and against visual art.

  • Poem Guide
    By CM Burroughs

    There is lightness within these downtrodden lives!

Poem Guides

Harriet Blog
By Esther Belin September 4, 2023

The process of knowing how to instrument this information and motivation was the logic behind grafting myself into the Poetry Foundation.

  • By Vi Khi Nao November 13, 2023

    Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I want to note the intriguing similarity between the Vietnamese word “nhà thơ” for poet and “nhà thờ”...

  • November 3, 2023

    Sundress Publications is led by more than 60 dedicated volunteers who are guided by the belief in the transformative nature of writing. The nonprofit publisher strives to help writers find...

  • November 2, 2023

    In response to discussions around a recent editorial decision.  We at the Poetry Foundation are saddened and deeply disturbed by the humanitarian crisis and ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel. While...

  • By A. Van Jordan October 30, 2023

    Saturday… late morning, damn-near noon, and I’m thinking about influences, role models, and what I admire in the work they do. As I get older, I’ve come to admire discipline,...

Recent Articles
  • Essay
    By Ed Simon

    Christian Wiman's Zero at the Bone blends memoir and theology, criticism and poetry into a mystical commonplace book for Armageddon.

  • Learning Prompt
    By Nathan Xavier Osorio November 21, 2023

    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”James BaldwinWriting poems can be the articulation of a kind of listening. We listen to the poems we’ve dog-eared in...

  • Essay
    By Maya C. Popa

    A new biography of Jane Kenyon frees the poet from the shadow of her famous older husband.

  • Essay
    By John Vincler

    Brian Teare's Poem Bitten by a Man is a hybrid book that presses language into and against visual art.

  • See All Articles