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Strangely Alive: Poets Upsetting Adjective Order

Sandra Marchetti writes about the power of the right words in the right order

The Tiny Crack: 6-12 Anthology

Students in our education programs share their writing

A cartoon-style anthology cover featuring a clock, broken chains, and two birds, and the title "The Tiny Crack"

The Future Sounds Like Cheerful Laughing: K-5 Anthology

Read some of the poems from Writing the Community

Book with rain and plants on it, with the title, "The Future Sounds Like Cheerful Laughing"

Poetry Center Awarded Continuing Art for Justice Grant

We are thrilled to continue our initiatives and pivot to new endeavors

June 25, 2022
terra venenum: An Art & Poetry Conversation with Kel Mur
Features, Interviews

water in the shape of a lightbulb

February 24, 2022
Poetry is like water: a conversation between H.R. Webster and Demetrius “Meech” Buckley
Features, Interviews

portrait of Danielle Badra and the cover of her book Like We Still Speak

December 4, 2021
2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Winner: Speaking with Danielle Badra on "Like We Still Speak"
Interviews

Tiana Nobile and the cover of her book Cleave

November 19, 2021
Shifting the Paradigm: An Interview with Tiana Nobile on "Cleave"
Interviews

November 9, 2021
Putting It Down: A Conversation with Truong Tran & book of the other
Features, Interviews

October 5, 2021
An Interview with Edie Jarolim
Interviews

drawing of various types of birds on beige paper

September 17, 2021
There is No One Way to be a Human or a Bird: An Interview with Amie Whittemore
Interviews

September 10, 2021
An Interview with Christopher Citro
Interviews

August 11, 2021
An Interview with Dava Sobel
Interviews

illustration of JD Scott and the cover of Mask for Mask

June 10, 2021
An Interview with JD Scott
Interviews

April 24, 2021
An Interview with Jennifer Calkins
Interviews

April 2, 2021
An Art for Justice Interview with Flowers & Bullets Co-Founder Tito Romero
Interviews

February 17, 2021
An Art for Justice Interview with Sonoran Prevention Works Executive Director Haley Coles
Features, Interviews

Poet W. J. Herbert wears a blue shirt and smiles in front of a background of trees.

January 28, 2021
Inspiration in the Stacks: Four Questions for W. J. Herbert
Interviews

Cover of the poetry collection "when the signals come home" next to a black and white portrait of poet Jordan E. Franklin

January 22, 2021
An Interview with Jordan E. Franklin
Interviews