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In this interview series, we ask writers, musicians, curators, and innovators to reflect on influence, memory, language, shared spaces, and the power of poetry to bring us together.
Poets talk about five books that have made a big impression on them recently.
In this series, we introduce readers to poets from around the world through a selection of poems and a brief essay on their life and work.
Poets and translators on their work.
Poets, writers, and musicians trace the long relationship between poetry and music.
Poets reflect on the poems that first captured their imaginations.
The Poetry Society of America celebrates its 110th Anniversary, and to mark the occasion, we have invited 11 acclaimed poets to help us create Reading Through the Decades, a video survey of American poetry over the past 110 years.
Poets reflect on the poems they return to in difficult times.
The Poetry Society of America and Greenpeace USA invited eight poets to reflect on a poem that has shaped their understanding of environmental justice, including how it feels to live through the climate crisis, the lived experience of communities in harm’s way, or the power structures that reinforce environmental inequality.
Terrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry.
Curated reading lists presented as part of the Poetry Coalition's annual theme.
Essays and poems on democracy, presented as part of the Poetry Coalition's annual theme.
Conversations with poets, editors, and artists.
Remembrances, appreciations, and remarks.
Poems and notes by participants in the 2017 Latinx-Caribbean Poetry Conference. Co-presented with the Gallatin Writing Program and CantoMundo.
Discussions on Latinx poetry in the 21st Century.
Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from 2003-2015.
Poets, activists, educators, and organizers on the #blackpoetsspeakout project.
Poets on poets and poems from the past.
Interviews with poetry editors of online publications.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths' photographs of poets accompanied by a poem.
Thematic essays on beauty, politics, poetic forms, and more.
Poets on poetry's role in the political landscape.
Poets on the first poems they adored. Edited by Carmela Ciuraru, and expanded into her anthology First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems that Captivated and Inspired Them.
Poets on their favorite word. Essays selected from the anthology One Word, edited by Molly McQuade.
Poets answer the question: "What's American about American Poetry?"
Publishers, printers, and editors discuss their process.
Poems in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Poets on the history and current state of African-American poetry.
Archival recordings from the Poetry Society of America events
