“The Wild Kindness,” Campbell McGrath (January)

“I Wonder if Waves Feel a Sense of Kinship According to How They Were Formed: A Cento,” Saretta Morgan (February)

“Blues on Avenue C,” Kim Addonizio (March)

“Look What I Found,” Willie Perdomo (April)

“To Idleness,” Garrett Hongo (May)

“a little tenderness,” Omotara James (June)

“Season of Grief,” Khadijah Queen (July)

“Translation,” Randall Mann (August)

“Catalogue of Happiness,” Nathalie Handal (September)

“PLEASURE,” Rick Barot (October)

“Ajil, Jungle Girl,” Tacey M. Atsitty (November)

“The Pages You Loved,” Khaled Mattawa (December)

poems for the holidays

“Old Time has turned another page ...”

—“Song for the New Year,” Eliza Cook

Read more classic and contemporary poems for the holiday season, as well as other archival content.

“enjambments” interviews

“The poems I love best make loss tangible, like a shock of silver in a lover’s hair.”

—Armen Davoudian, author of The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House, 2024)

Revisit our “enjambments” interviews from 2024.

Congratulations to Sara Daniele Rivera, whose book, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, 2024), winner of our 2023 First Book Award, was named one of the Best Books of 2024 by Shelf Awareness.

Read poems from the collection:

“Sol”
“Quilla”

Pick of the Week

Come visit the Sixth Stanza installation at the Guggenheim Museum until March 9, 2025. A space for rest and contemplation, it features videos of poems in sign language created for Ekphrasis in Air, a public engagement project organized by 2024 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence Meg Day. (Sponsored)

poet laureate fellowships

Applications to the 2025 Poet Laureate Fellowships program are now open.

To amplify the essential role poets laureate play in local and state communities throughout the U.S., while recognizing that poets are at the forefront of championing free expression and cultural understanding, the Poet Laureate Fellowships come with a $50,000 stipend and are made possible with thanks to the Mellon Foundation. Eligible laureates can apply by February 24.

translation prizes

Submissions are open for the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, a $1,000 prize that recognizes a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in 2024, and the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize, a $10,000 prize given for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry. Submit by February 15.