Sampson Starkweather’s “What if We Call This Tenderness” is a poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world. The ardent and persistent calls of a collection agency are ...

Belle Adelman-Cannon had a “zest for life,” their father, the author and professor C.W. Cannon, writes in the afterword to “Every Time They Call Me She.” They loved fashion and dancing, gardening and ...

For National Poetry Month, Oregon's poet laureate is bringing "the electric illumination of our collective human experience" directly to the public with a daily poetry hotline. If you need a little ...

Hands-down, Martial wrote the shortest, harshest reviews in the Western canon: “His verse was meant to strike me low / But, since he wrote it—who will know?” The fashionable epic poets branded his ...

Growing up as a Mexican-American “border kid, a foot on either bank,” the 12-year-old narrator of Bowles’s skillful, moving novel-in-poems details his seventh-grade year. Güero, so called for his ...

Poetry lovers can call 503-928-7008 to hear a new daily poem through the end of April. DeAgostini / Getty Images Anis Mojgani was named Oregon’s poet laureate in April 2020, just weeks after the Covid ...