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With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, …

The Winners and Finalists of the 2020 Sappho Prize!

We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2020 Sappho Prize, selected …

Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the …

“The day I found out seabirds drink saltwater using a gland above their eyes / We celebrated the news like it was something that happened to us.”

“Here, nobody / is what you’d call / deep. Mister Vroom Vroom / cruises his Vette / around the beach.”

Goatwater is a column which explores the mystifying, joyous and liberating concept of Carnival through the New York …

“Hold your hours. Hold each one / as it ticks away in in your hand / like holding a baby bird / whose entire being breathes / from your palm,”

In The Guest, poet and literary translator Robin Myers explores poetry translation as process, practice, vocation, meditation, and craft.

“Do you // remember his steady hands? / How badly we wanted to love, in him, // some unliftable part of ourselves?”