Poetry
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Sherman Alexie on How Trump is Turning the US Into a Reservation
Sherman Alexie on what it means for Trump to treat the entire country like a reservation — and writing a memoir about a great woman who was not a great mother.
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It’s Time To Find Out Which Famous Poet You’re Most Like
There are no bad results when it comes to good poetry.
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Just 13 Forgotten About Haikus Written By Chris Pratt In 2011
These speak for themselves.
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How Maya Angelou Taught Me To Live A Fuller Life
It wasn’t until Maya Angelou died that the full story of her life opened up to me, and helped me open up my own life in turn.
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Poem: "It’s Not Fitness, It’s A Lifestyle" By Nicole Sealey
“I’m waiting for a white woman / in this overpriced Equinox / to mistake me for someone other / than a paying member.”
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Poem: "On The Night Of The Election" By Franny Choi
“Is there anything that works / that isn’t a machine for killing, / or doomed to collapse, or stolen / from the sweat of the hungry?”
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Here Are The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners For Letters And Drama
Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad; Lynn Nottage’s Sweat took home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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31 Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring
It’s a whole new season of fresh reads!
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Poem: "I Knew I Wasn’t Poor" By Jan Beatty
“I knew I wasn’t poor, / because I had a choice: / buy tampons or birth control pills.”
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Four Love Poems For Black Women By Black Women
We asked poet Morgan Parker to curate a suite of poems in celebration of Valentine’s Day.
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21 Of The Most Romantic Quotes In Literature
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ―Alfred Tennyson
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If You’ve Ever Read A Book Or Wanted A Tattoo, You HAVE To Read About This Awesome Tattoo Artist/Writer
The writers of today no longer use Word.
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Poem: "When The Therapist Asks You To Recount, You Have To Say It" By Aricka Foreman
“…how you become / the kind of woman who learns when to shut up and take it.”
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14 Great Poems To Read On Inauguration Day
There’s no official inaugural poem this year, so here are 14 that describe America as it is and as it could be.
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27 Books Every Woman In America Should Read
These novels, essay collections, memoirs, histories, and more will help you understand why there is no feminism without intersectionality, why we should remember our history before we repeat it, and why Roe v. Wade is a lot more tenuous than you might think.
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Poem: "Barbershop" By Phillip B. Williams
“So I’m sitting in the barber shop getting my hair cut when this dude say he would kill his son if he found out he was gay…”
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The 32 Most Exciting Books Coming In 2017
Here are the books we can’t wait to read in 2017! (Ranked in no particular order.)
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15 Literary Baby Names That’ll Make You Want To Have Children
What’s in a name? A lot, actually.
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Poem: "Record" By Danniel Schoonebeek
“Strike from yourself / these names that you’ve given yourself / and name each part of yourself once again.”
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The 19 Best Literary Debuts Of 2016
Here are the most exciting new voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in 2016 (ranked in no particular order).
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22 Poems That Got You Through 2016
Amidst the ongoing wars over culture, truth and language that defined 2016, here are some of poems we read in order to find America’s pulse.
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The 11 Best Poetry Books Of 2016
Here are the poetry collections that we absolutely loved in 2016. (Ranked in no particular order.)
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Poem: “A New National Anthem” By Ada Limón
“Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal / snaking underneath us as we blindly sing / the high notes…”
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Here Are The 2016 National Book Award Winners
The winners were revealed at the 67th National Book Awards ceremony.
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14 Beautiful Haikus About, Uh, Current Events
Just some poems about some things that have been going on lately.
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Poem: “Partial Hospitalization” By Donika Kelly
“I promised no new doors / into my body.”
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Poem: “You’re Dead, America” By Danez Smith
“you’re dead, America / & where you died / grew something worse”
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Poem: “The Plums” By Anis Mojgani
“The plums rain down and we feel the wind made by their bodies passing before the thuds of them hitting the soft ground.”
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Poem: “Land Where My Father Died” By Fatimah Asghar
“Land that mispronounces my grief land that calls my eulogy exotic land that makes a graveyard of my other land…”