Editor’s Note: This is the final collection in Boston Review’s series of poetry reading lists for National Poetry Month. You can read the others on belonging, empathy, and womanhood. Since Boston ...

Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, the city’s poets have showered us with an embarrassment of riches. To celebrate National ...

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Founded more than 70 years ago, the UB Poetry Collection was the first to archive the manuscripts and artifacts of living writers, many of them largely unknown outside their field and some of whom ...

Most people need something to break up the monotony of a long work day, and is there anything more cathartic than reading a poem? Lately, I've gotten into the routine of reading poems during my lunch ...

When Steven Espada Dawson moved to Madison in 2022, he wasn’t sure he was “compatible” with the Midwest. “I was wrong, of course,” Dawson says. “Madison is always surprising me, and I’ve grown so ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

Emily Jungmin Yoon’s poetry is not meant to be pretty. In writing about gender, race and violence against women, she intertwines the histories of her native Korea and the United States, revealing the ...