Poetry

shin yu pai, ensō
Excerpt: ‘Enso’
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index of women, now were getting somewhere, kim addonizio, amy gerstler
Lives of the Poets
lawrence ferlinghetti books
8 Essential Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reads
linda hogan, when the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through
Poem: ‘The History of Fire’
victoria chang, obit
Poem: ‘My Father’s Frontal Lobe’
every day we get more illegal, juan felipe herrera
The Better Angels of His Nature
“on leaving the united states for california” was published in issue 8 of the californian
The Anonymous Bard
robert hass
Three Questions with Robert Hass
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Three Questions for Luis J. Rodriguez
an illustration of a mountaintop lake by emily underwood
Summer Storm in the Sierra
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collected poems of bob kaufman, edited by neeli cherkovski, raymond foye, and tate swindell foreword by devorah major city lights publishers, 234 pages, 1995
Bob Kaufman Returns
former us poet laureate kay ryan distills a lifetime of thinking about—and writing—verse with the essays collected in synthesizing gravity
A Poet in Her Element
tommy picco and jake skeets
Mesmerizing Modern Poetry
Joy Harjo, author of An American Sunrise, is the first Native American poet laureate of the United States.
Joy Harjo’s Trail of Tears
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Heidi Van Horn describes her new work, Belated Poem, as "an investigation of the interior world: consciousness, memory, the complexities of selfhood."
Talking with Heidi Van Horn
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Alta’s Best Poetry 2019
Father’s Day author Matthew Zapruder
Father’s Little Dividend
Jim Harrison (left), Kim Shuck, and Forrest Gander.
Poetry Picks
Luis J. Rodriguez was poet laureate of Los Angeles from 2014 to 2016. He is also the author of eight books of poetry.
Make a Poem Cry