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Report: Poetry Foundation launches $3 million Sustainable Futures initiative.

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Poetry Foundation launches $3 million Sustainable Futures initiative

Unrestricted multiyear grants totaling $3 million were awarded to 12 organizations to strengthen organizational capacity ...

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Interview: Joy Harjo

"Anytime there's transformation, there's danger, you know, it's you can think of becoming an adolescent, and you face so many choices. Which way is my story going to go?"

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Former U.S. Poet Laureate says her new children’s book is for every grandchild

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children’s book titled “For A Girl Becoming.” ...

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Interview: Kristin Dykstra

"I grew up around a lot of music, and while harmony gives us pleasure, it speaks most powerfully in partnership with moments of dissonance."

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Lines that linger: A poet–scholar reflects on dissonance and dialogue

A shortened version of this Q&A is included in the Spring 2025 edition of Saint Michael’s College Magazine. Kris...

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Interview: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

"As someone who has taught nature writing for decades, I can tell you when I set my students to a writing task, I ask them (in so many words) to start with and from a place of love"

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Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Judge of the 2025 Nature Poetry Prize - Palette Poetry

"Today here in March, a new study revealed we’ve lost 22% of the butterflies on this planet. I mean, we are ...

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Essay: "Bugs are notoriously good analogues for human antics, ethics, and morality."

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In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

Poetry and bugs should be thought of more often together. My friend, the poet Sara Nicholson, once told me she ...

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Interview: Steven Espada Dawson

"When you’re someone caught between two places it can be hard to know whether that carrying is a life vest or a haunting."

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Late to the Search Party: An Interview with Steven Espada Dawson

Steven Espada Dawson is from East Los Angeles and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he serves as poet laureate. ...

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Announcement: Griffen Poetry Prize Winner Announced

The international Griffin Poetry Prize is pleased to announce the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize winner, Psyche Running,Karen Leeder, translated from the German written by Durs Grünbein.

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Announcing the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner - Griffin Poetry Prize

TORONTO – June 4, 2025 – The international Griffin Poetry Prize is pleased to announce the 2025 Griffin Poetry...

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Interview: Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

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Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

Last month, the Griffin Poetry Prize—the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry published...

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Conversation: Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali.

The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.

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BOMB Magazine | Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali

The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.

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Profile: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize.
Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.

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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize

Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.

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