On the day when my used-to-be countrymen
voted to throw their country away,
Robert Bringhurst
from the book
On Occasion: Poems for the People /
Coach House Books
“I’ve always been in love with the idea of the mother. The mother as the line of power, excitement, of everything.”
The Paris Review
“Loss changes the ways we love, but it doesn’t take love away.”
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
“In my late twenties, I had a very specific sense of who I was as a poet…I knew myself, my voice, my aesthetic sensibility. But childbirth changed everything.”
Poetry Northwest
“The Poetry Foundation awards $195k in prizes for poetry craft, service, and criticism.”
Poetry Foundation
“As I called upon the voices and visions of these Asian American women artists, it caused me to see my individual experience as one that was fully shared.”
Bomb Magazine
“It’s the first book I’ve written that I’m actually proud of, that I love, that ain’t tied to anything or anyone other than my insides.”
The Rumpus
“For Lerner, reading is conspiracy: the sharing of breath though words, bringing the ‘art’ and the ‘heart’ into associative continuity.”
Full Stop
“My skin became a whole topography. There was nothing beyond the landforms of forehead, nose, and chin.”
Literary Hub
“Wright has always been a poet of extremes, of the tortured psyche. His poems urgently convert obsession into devotion”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“Brenda & I unload ideas about our sister Emily’s influence, agree accessibility is the devil’s work, talk the long poem, the (short) chapbook, and much more!”
Melody or Witchcraft Podcast
“A poem, a prose poem, and a lyric essay are wildly different animals, and I love them all.”
Columbia News
“In Russian, I engage older words and layers, working closely with morphology.”
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In our series Life in Public, we ask our writers to examine how poetry speaks to different aspects of public experience. What does it mean to say that a poet is, as C. D. Wright has put it, “one with others”? What is poetry’s place in the public sphere today, of all times?
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- September 15, 2026
Michael Imossan
Point me to it, point me toward tenderness, I kept
screaming.
- September 14, 2026
Shash Trevett
F was once a little Fish
Z was once a piece of Zinc
X was once a great king Xerxes
- September 13, 2026
Brent Ameneyro
Three things: I've never been to
a funeral, a man is his own
prophet in the morning, a door
- September 12, 2026
Antonio Ochoa
She would sit there, looking out into the garden, smoking Faros, reading, and drinking glass after glass of Coke. The history of the shapes of reality.
- September 11, 2026
Arah Ko
Imitating recorded audio of critically endangered Hawai‘ian Palila birdsong
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