Behind the Erasures

What Mary Ruefle noticed about her own Erasures exhibit
 
 
In the wake of Hurricane Helene

All those lives who were lost were dear bodies of water. How do we address this collective loss? How do we find a way forward?
 
 
3 new episodes of Poetry Centered Podcast

Hosted by Olatunde Osinaike, Mary Jo Bang, and Eugenia Leigh
 
 
Voca: now FULLY transcribed!

We just finished transcribing and captioning all publicly accessible recordings on Voca--a six million word project. Here's what we learned.
 
 
Playing with Structure: Poetry and Mixology

Building a cocktail is about form and creativity. It’s about seasonality, personality, and terroir.   And isn’t that just like a poem?
 
 
A love letter to Voca

Marianne Moore called poems “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” and I like to think when you dip into the Voca archives, you get to amble that garden, you get to touch those toads. 
 
 
Celebrating 6 poetry-inspired murals along Speedway

“We have a right to beautiful things”
 
 

Art For Justice

See the work from leading poets as part of this project that seeks to confront racial inequities within the criminal justice system to promote social justice and change.