Listen to Trace Peterson read her poem “AFTER BEFORE AND AFTER.” Trace Peterson, a poet at the forefront of the push for transgender representation in poetry, will soon pioneer what she says is the ...

For about nine years, Johnathan Abraham Antelept has been writing poetry. “I began reading a lot and wanted to improve my vocabulary,” Antelept said. Through reading, Antelept was able to expand his ...

Safia Elhillo was a freshman in high school when she started keeping a diary to record her heartbreaks. All of her entries were poems, so if her parent ever found them, she could hide behind the ...

Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations. By Elisa Gabbert Poker players have an expression for that moment ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...