Let’s say something about distances that escape through the body. About what the body needs to say as its joints go silent. Let’s say the body needs to remain quiet to say something about distances.

Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River, I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream, Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings, We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred ...

Join us for an open mic reading featuring undergraduate writers from the Area Program in Poetry Writing (APPW) and the Area Program in Literary Prose (APLP) at UVA. This event will be free and open to ...

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Sawako Nakayasu discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work. Sawako ...

Now, during his Guest Editor Q&A in January 2022, Joseph O. Legaspi described how you infuse what he called “nonpolitical elements” into your work, including recipes and menus, particularly in Loves ...

Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men’s are, dead. Dull ...

The seed is a wound in the form of a little girl buried alive. Buried inside me the sol de la terre. What do I remember of ...

ARIANA BENSON’s collection Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) has received the LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE. This $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published ...

The recipient of the second edition of the Tusiani Translation Prize is Professor Will Schutt, for his translation of Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems, by Fabio Pusterla. The prize will be ...

let me hold your hand when I say this [the words are just words] is a new play by Nile Harris meditating on the ordinary poetics of desire and faith. The play is a text to be read simultaneously by ...

Love hums in your veins with the deep and heartening sound Of a temple gong— The gong of Dai Nippon That fused into perfect, fastidious harmony When a girl had flung into the quag of its white-hot ...

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024) and is the translator of The Hell of That Star by ...