Tags: poetry
Poetry as Salve and Challenge

One poet’s personal reading goal gone viral, the Sealey Challenge invites participants to read a book of poetry every day in August and to share their reading lists publicly, offering sustained immersion in poetry and its community.
Taking a Chance: Toni Morrison’s Years as an Editor at Random House

A new book examines Toni Morrison’s years as an editor at Random House and the complicated art of publishing books of poetry by Barbara Chase-Riboud, Lucille Clifton, and June Jordan.
Foreign Objects 2: Seams and Borders

Writer and translator Elizabeth T. Gray considers the craft of integrating foreign objects into poetry.
Foreign Objects 1: What’s This Doing Here?

Writer and translator Elizabeth T. Gray explores the history and function of foreign objects in poetry.
Ten Questions for July Westhale

“And while it is an expansive, strange book, it manages to feel contained and possible. I think that’s in part because it was written from a place of confinement.” —July Westhale, author of moon moon
Ten Questions for Lisa Fishman

“The magnitude of space around me must have opened a kind of interior spaciousness where the writing came from.” —Lisa Fishman, author of One Big Time
Poetry Is Always in Season: A Conversation With the Anonymous Curator Behind @poetryisnotaluxury

The person behind the viral Instagram account @poetryisnotaluxury talks about their approach to selecting poetry for a digital platform versus a print anthology, the value of anonymity, and more.
Who’s In and Who’s Out: Crafting Poetry Submission Packets

Curating and sequencing your poems with intention can positively affect the outcome of your submission. Contest organizers and judges offer four guiding points as you assemble your poetry packet.
Undocupoets Turns Ten

In the past decade, the Undocupoets advocacy organization has greatly increased undocumented poets’ visibility as meaningful voices in American poetry. The group plans to push forward in community against the difficulties to come.
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