poetry – JANUARY MAGAZINE

The Nation Adds Two Poetry Editors

Steph Burt (who also goes by Stephen and Stephanie) and Carmen Giménez Smith have been added to the masthead of

When The Best American Poetry 2015 (Scribner), edited by Sherman Alexie, was published earlier this week, it included a poem

The Poetry Foundation names a Young People’s Poet Laureate every two years. In 2015, the $25,000 laureate title has been

Alice Notley has been awarded the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986, the prize recognizes the outstanding lifetime

Though poetry often seems undervalued, it seems fitting that poetry month should be highlighted by a sale that sets record-breaking

A rare handwritten poem by a 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë will go on sale at Bonhams in London tomorrow. The catalog description

Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. According to Caribbean

In addition to today being the birthday of the very Dewey who organized the library and the anniversary of the

Looking over our shoulders, it’s easy to underestimate the poetic art of Jack Kerouac. We remember little beyond On the

When a critic says that a poet’s work is “a crime against literature,” you know punches are not being pulled.