Read poems from Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, and Company, 1929), edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson:

“Forever is composed of Nows (25)”
“I dwell in Possibility (30)”
“Revolution is the pod (33)”
“Beauty is not caused (57)”
“For every bird a nest (79)”
“All but Death can be (89)”
“The Heart is the capital (138)”
“Empty my heart of thee — (146)”
“After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175)”

this month’s guest editor

“‘[Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye]’ is also a very characteristic Jerry Stern poem [in] that it’s kind of overflowing with joy and grief and madness and dreamlike imagery.”

Read our interview with Campbell McGrath, our Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for January. Read more about McGrath, including poems:

“The Wild Kindness”
“Stories”
“On the Three Forms of Water”

pick of the week

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opportunity for poets

Submit your poetry to the 2026 Central Avenue Poetry Prize for a chance to win $500 and be published in our third anthology. Not for profit. Open worldwide. Submit by February 15. (Sponsored)

2025 Poet-in-Residence

Applications to the 2025 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence position are now open. The 2025 Poet-in-Residence will play a core role in public programming throughout the year and participate in events that may include on-site readings, workshops, and other activations in the museum. The selected poet will receive a $20,000 honorarium. Learn more and apply by February 19.

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.