Poem of the week
- Melissa Eleftherion
DIAL-A-POET: Hear the poet in your coffee. Dial 415-484-7919. When you hear the greeting, press 721 Melissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. A high school dropout,...
I Learned All My Spanish in School - E. K. Keith
E. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs...
The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was...
To the White Fiends - Claude McKay
Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating...
untitled - Bashō
Confessions - Augustine of Hippo
EADER ELEMENTARY - RAYAN MUSTAFA
Rayan Mustafa is a Palestinian American poet from California. His work explores the intersection between the personal and political spheres of life and the emergence of identity...
(from Like Nebraska) - Sophie Klahr
Sophie Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016). Her work appears in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI...
BLANK GUN - BETH BACHMANN
Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and...
ANIMAL DOOR - CONNER HABIB
Conner Habib is an author, host of the podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib, and activist. He lives in Los Angeles. Twitter: @ConnerHabib