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  1. fashion week poems
    Fashion Week Poems: Sparkles Underfoot at Sies MarjanWhat if all roads were paved with crystals?
    By Edith Zimmerman
  2. fashion week poems
    Fashion Week Poems: Collina Strada’s Colorful Vegan CampsiteI’d like a tie-dye water bottle.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  3. fashion week poems
    Fashion Week Poems: Tom Ford’s Fluffy HatsImagine getting into an argument while wearing this hat.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  4. in memoriam
    How Mary Oliver’s Biographer Finally Met the Legendary PoetOliver, who died yesterday, connected with people “on the page,” and Lindsay Whalen was no exception.
    By Lindsay Whalen
  5. culture
    Mary Oliver’s Poetry Found a Second Life As a MemeAre you really going to spend your one wild and precious life on Twitter?
    By Helena Fitzgerald
  6. culture
    Poet Mary Oliver Wrote Plainly and Affectingly of Love and LossHere are a few favorite lines.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  7. poetry
    New Year, New Verse: 4 Poetry Collections That Change the WorldPoems about addiction, war, tokenism, regret, forgiveness, and Republicans.
    By Jonathan Russell Clark
  8. year in culture 2018
    9 Books of Poems That Prove 2018 Was a Fantastic Year — at Least for Poetry.Including two rediscovered classics, a brilliant song of Trump-era outrage, and a transgender scholar’s reworking of Middle English.
    By Meghan O’Rourke and Meghan O'Rourke
  9. appropriation
    New Plagiarism Accusations Spark a Twitter Debate on ‘After’ PoemsAnother poet accused of theft — or is it just a centuries-old form of homage?
    By Kat Rosenfield
  10. plagiarism
    Poetry Twitter Erupts Over a Plagiarist in Their MidstAiley O’Toole was a young poet on the rise, until colleagues found she’d stolen their verse.
    By Kat Rosenfield
  11. sweet irony!
    A Pushcart-Nominated Poet Got a Tattoo of Words She Took From Another PoetOh cruel world! Oh sweet irony!
    By Bethy Squires
  12. hello donut
    Where to Get Free Donuts on National Donut Day 2018: A PoemWhen is National Donut Day? … Where do we go? … What do we say?
    By Kelly Conaboy
  13. NEA Tries to Boot Refugee Student From National Poetry CompetitionMaine’s poetry recitation champion happens to be a refugee from Zambia. Should that really matter?
    By James D. Walsh
  14. exclusive
    Read Nico Tortorella’s Poems on the Penis, the Vagina, and His IdentityExcerpted from Tortorella’s book all of it is you.
  15. last night on late night
    Helen Mirren Reads Stephen Colbert a Poem to Make Him Cry. Will You?Depends on where you’re at with the whole mortality thing, probably.
    By Halle Kiefer
  16. verse
    Vogue Seems to Have Accidentally Published Taylor Swift’s Tumblr PoetrySnaps.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. last night on late night
    Cole Sprouse Reads a Childhood Poem He Wrote His Mom About, of Course, StabbingIt’s very sweet, except for the stabbing.
    By Halle Kiefer
  18. niche drama
    This Week in Drama: The Soccer-Mom-Chat Troll, Granola vs. the FDA, and MoreWe recap the pettiest squabbles, juiciest feuds, and other niche drama you didn’t know you were living for every week.
    By Gabriella Paiella and Jessica Roy
  19. reading women
    Elizabeth Alexander on the Book That Taught Her About Complicated Women“Little Women was my first consciousness of what it meant to really love and inhabit and identify with a book.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
  20. Listening to John AshberyHis death marks a real historical threshold, the passing away of the generation of writers who turned modernism into a tradition.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  21. r.i.p.
    John Ashbery, Celebrated and Influential Poet, Dead at 90Ashbery received many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.
    By Tolly Wright
  22. npr tiny desk
    Chance the Rapper Wrote a Poem for His Emotional Tiny Desk Concert DebutIt’s called “The Other Side.”
    By Dee Lockett
  23. The Absolute Best Reading Series in New YorkIt’s all about that extra something special.
    By Mike Albo
  24. science of us
    This Is What Happens to Your Brain When You Read PoetryA new study explains.
    By Cody Delistraty
  25. poetic justice
    Ethan Coen Wants to Be Poet Laureate in Recognition of Poetic Musings on TrumpAlas, his plea is in prose.
    By Karen Brill
  26. q&a
    Morgan Parker on Why Beyoncé Is a Metaphor for Every Black WomanIn her new book, the poet uses Beyoncé as a device to explore the lives of black women.
    By Tahirah Hairston
  27. modern discourse
    Sherlock Co-Creator Slams Critics With Poem“In shooting down pygmies and Hounds from hell / Did Sherlock on Victorian niceties dwell?”
    By Devon Ivie
  28. cut cover story
    Is Cleo Wade the Millennial Oprah?The Instagram poet on style, her political awakening, and her relentless positivity.
    By Lizzy Goodman
  29. makes sense
    Read Rosie O’Donnell’s Poem About Meeting Ivanka TrumpIt’s called “8 million to one.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  30. boys don’t cry
    Read Frank Ocean’s ‘Boyfriend’ Poem“I could say that I’m happy they let me and my boyfriend become married.”
    By Dee Lockett
  31. exclusive
    Hear a New Jeff Tweedy Song, Based on a Poem by Carl Sandburg“Theme in Yellow” comes from David Nagler’s Chicago Poems project.
    By Nate Jones
  32. poetry
    Alice Walker Wrote a Poem About Jesse Williams and His Powerful BET SpeechShe really liked his speech.
    By Kit Steinkellner
  33. How Poet Robert Bly Started the Drum-Thumping Men’s Movement of the ’90sIs it time to head back to the woods?
    By Christian Lorentzen
  34. beta male
    How Poet Robert Bly Started the Drum-Thumping Men’s Movement of the ’90sIs it time to head back to the woods?
    By Christian Lorentzen
  35. A Requiem to Twitter’s ‘.@’ ReplyA poem eulogizing the death of the “.@” reply.
    By Kelly Conaboy
  36. Boston’s Sidewalks Are Covered in Secret Poems You Can Only See When It RainsRain clouds get a much-needed silver lining. 
    By Lizzy Halberstadt and Cait Munro
  37. video
    Watch This Sad Male Model Read His Poetry to YouBeautiful people have breakups, too.
    By Catie L'Heureux
  38. #oscarssowhite
    Watch and Listen As Nick Cannon Unleashes a Semi-Oscar-Related Spoken-Word Poem“Nah, not another trophy rant.”
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  39. james franco does it all
    Wow, James Franco’s Poem Is Very Good and Not Just Because He’s HotThat’s a lie.
    By Allison P. Davis
  40. Nicki Minaj Reads Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’“Does my sassiness upset you?”
    By E. Alex Jung
  41. jack of all trades (master of one)
    Patti Smith’s Journey to Horses: A TimelineSome of it you read about in Just Kids, some of it you didn’t.
    By Caryn Rose
  42. slam poetry
    The Game Is a Sensual, Seductive Instagram PoetThe Game for poet laureate of sex.
    By Allison P. Davis
  43. books
    After 19 Books and a Presidential Bid, Eileen Myles Gets Her DueA punk poet, suddenly inside the canon.
    By Rachel Monroe
  44. bias
    What a Poetry Kerfuffle Can Teach Us About Bias“If I’d pulled the poem then I would have been denying that I gave the poem special attention because of the poet’s Chinese pseudonym.”
    By Jesse Singal
  45. Should White Men Stop Writing? A Q&A With Elisa Gabbert“White liberals should be questioning our own motives, and being careful not to dominate the conversation, and taking criticism seriously.”
    By Christian Lorentzen
  46. art
    When John Ashbery Was New York’s Art Critic“The show is like a marvelous overdose of spring tonic. After you come out of it, everything and everybody you see looks like a new percussion instrument.”
    By Claire Voon
  47. dark sparkler
    Amber Tamblyn Explains the Moving Poem She Wrote About Lindsay Lohan“I am giving this back to you to write. This belongs to you.”
    By Lindsey Weber
  48. gabi the hero
    This 9-Year-Old Dark-Lord Poetess Is Our New Goth Hero“The fire is red as blood,” writes Gabi.
    By Allison P. Davis
  49. epilepsy
    A Woman’s Epilepsy Medication Turned Her Into a Compulsive PoetThis is one odd case study.
    By Melissa Dahl
  50. weddings!
    The 5 Kinds of Poems You Hear at WeddingsAnd the two I chose for my childhood friend.
    By Maureen O'Connor
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