Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

What I know is that I don’t want it to be poetic. The time has passed when my poetry was poetic—if in fact my poetry was ever poetic. My fate has always been to do something different.” ...

I know Adil Parashar, who uses the pen name Aranya for their writing, in many capacities: poet, friend, curator, editor. One thing that’s common across all these personas is the innately polyphonic ...

In “The Hurting Kind,” Ada Limón stands with her readers before the frightening mysteries and hopeful uncertainties of the everyday. By Craig Morgan Teicher THE HURTING KIND Poems By Ada Limón The ...