David Lehman (b. 1948) is an American poet, journalists and literary critic best known for being the founder and series editor of The Best American Poetry series (1988 to present). As a freelance ...

The lines in June Jordan’s “These Poems” explain the poet’s modus operandi. Her poems are made “in the dark,” as if by subterranean or subversive means. They are composed of words that glide away from ...

June is the month to celebrate LGBTQIAP+ pride, so why not kick off your summer with some fantastic, themed reads? For the list below, I have collected 21 poems by queer poets for you to read this ...

What is poetry for? It might be the overwhelming question of poetry, to borrow Prufrock’s turn of phrase. What does it do, why does it matter, how can it matter, what is it for? Because reading a poem ...