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Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
The PSA is transforming the neighborhood around its Brooklyn storefront, adding poems to the outside walls of bookstores, public schools, community gardens, cafés, offices, and public housing.
For one nonfiction writer with autism and ADHD, perfectionism threatens to “harden the creative process into something punitive.” A sustainable creative practice means regulating intensity, not trying to outrun it.
Compose a poem based on close observations of your immediate surroundings, vignettes about human and nonhuman characters that reveal multiple points of view, or a lyric essay braiding early memories with stories passed down from ancestors.
The literary agent Annie Hwang discusses founding her own agency, Renegade Literary, resisting the biases of the publishing industry, and representing poets.
Sara Elkamel highlights journals that have published her translations of Dalia Taha’s poetry, including Modern Poetry in Translation and ArabLit Quarterly.
Currently based in Philadelphia, Common Notions Press publishes primarily nonfiction books on topics of social justice and radical imagination.
Under the leadership of Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, the iconoclastic literary magazine has launched several new editorial and programming initiatives.
The storied subscription service celebrates its centennial of reading and sparking conversation about books.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including No Such Thing as Monday by Siân Hughes and Lion by Tina Chang.
Hundreds of digitized audio recordings from decades of literary events at the Unterberg Poetry Center make iconic readings accessible online.
One writer gets caught in the crosshairs of AI and shares thoughts on how all of us can defend ourselves and our work going forward.
What it takes to resist the siren song of one’s devices and stay focused at your writing desk.
For a time, literary Twitter was a haven for community, pithy criticism, and sharp dialogue about the world of books. But even then, as now, the deepest engagements happen offline.
Substack has emerged as an alternative outlet for short form writing, letting writers reach audiences on their own terms and timelines. Does the platform have the power to displace print publishers?
From a neuroscience perspective, trading the printed page for audiobooks may not necessarily lose the brain benefits of reading—but it may shift what gets read and our ability to engage with it critically.
As readers rely more and more on online retailers, what books get surfaces and centered by websites’ algorithms? And can digital recommendations ever compete with advice from a bookseller?
When we allow AI to make the writing process less difficult, we lose the exploration that leads to new language and new questions, to insight and revelation. A thorny process is in fact the point.
How is technology changing the way we reach readers and shaping the way we write? What’s lost and what’s gained as literary culture goes digital? And how will literature continue to connect us to meaning, deep thinking, and our humanity?
The editorial director of One World discusses writing and publishing in service of freedom, what she’s looking for in a book and what turns her away, and the part of an agent’s query she does not read.
Essays by debut authors Hillary Behrman, Radha Lin Chaddah, John Fadely, Shanda McManus, and Judy Sandler as well as excerpts from their books.
Fifteen years after his dazzling debut, The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach returns to the spotlight with The Brightness, a story of big love, campus protest, female friendship, and the daunting potential of youth.
“My life’s purpose is to tell difficult stories involving difficult people.” —Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Spirits
The author of Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems (Knopf, 2026) offers insight on how to address something that is difficult to say in writing.
“I sing into your ear sweet whispers you mistake for your own thoughts.” —T. Geronimo Johnson, author of The Occidental Book of the Dead
The author of Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems (Knopf, 2026) encourages poets to embrace fictional speakers in their work.
