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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Corbett received funding from Arts Council England for the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival in 2022. “Love” is the first word in Ariel, the collection of poems published by Faber and Faber in 1965 ...

“On Imagination” is the opening poem in the Library of America’s “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song.” It was written by Phillis Wheatley in the mid-17th century. Wheatley was ...