An equinoctial wish for inefficiency.

Poet, editor, curator, and teacher has spent decades bringing poetry into public life and creating opportunities for other artists.

This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate. Although the writing contains many common poetic images and topics (the moon, birds, fear, loss, love, and language itself all make appearances), …

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Gleam Issue 11 The following poems were selected by the editors for Issue 11 of Gleam: Singing the Earth Song, by Rose Mary BoehmWhen it is Today, by Jamey BoelhowerAnother thing to Aware, by Kate …

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

What a mushroom festival gave me and other strange generosities.

Okay, I'm exaggerating again. But it does fill one's schedule.

AMIYA MORETTA <br> Magnolia tree in the window, hammock­­­­— a loop in hours, a cradle of light we swing inside, naming what we’re afraid of. In this version, he is from halfway around the…

The legendary author wrote in the former nursery after her kids were in bed.

I just had tea with the lovely poet, person, and letterpress publisher Emily Hancock of St. Brigid Press. She’s planning an ecopoetry event at Stone Soup Books in Waynesboro, Virginia on Sept…

Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, had her poem “Return Path” featured on the American Public Media daily podcast The Slowdown on the morning of Tue…

Oppressive weather, oppressive politics. Sometimes it’s hard to see a way forward, with billionaires controlling the show and the current government chipping away at the integrity of a voting…

A poem can call me into its little room, persuade me to pay attention to subjects I can’t bear to immerse myself in for hours or days.