Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 American Poets Prizes, which are among the most valuable and venerable poetry prizes in the United States. This year the ...

It makes sense that the Library of America, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to printing authoritative editions of America’s most significant writings, would bring out an anthology of American ...

For the first time, the Academy of American Poets will be led by a Latino: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado. Maldonado, currently the co-director of the 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City, will ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

One of the few things almost everyone can agree on about contemporary American poetry is that no one can agree on much. At present, poetry is a jumbled landscape, with no single, dominant style and ...

An editing error in the headline inverted the name of the organization Academy of American Poets. The headline has since been updated. Founded in 1934, the Academy of ...

Each April, the Academy of American Poets sponsors National Poetry Month. In recognition of Cincinnati’s extensive contributions to that genre, here is a collection of local poets who achieved ...

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, NBC Asian America — with the help of poet Bryan Thao Worra, a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellow in literature and president of the Science ...