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12 Portraits Of Poets Show Sides You Really Wouldn't Expect

These writers are anything but boring.
Kate Bubacz

This Slam Poet Addressed The Effects Catcalling Can Have On Women

"Men have yelled at me in the street since I was twelve."
Pablo Valdivia

Poetry: "which art? what fact?"

"what histories are natural & what artifacts art? / how do we decide the borders of a country / or an era or a solar system? when did we decide / our planet meant only this collection of green?"
Nate Marshall

Poetry: "Everything Is Restored" And "Death Of A Child"

Two powerful poems about loss.
Jenny George

We Asked A Poetry Professor To Critique Those “Broems” On LinkedIn

“The achievement of 'Step 15: Profit' is as simple as reciting the meditative cadences found in this poem.”
Katie Notopoulos

Slam Poet Shamir Reuben Has Been Accused Of Sexually Harassing Minors

In a Facebook post, multiple women shared stories of how Reuben made sexual advances toward them when they were minors.
Sonia Mariam Thomas

What's Your Favorite Line Of Poetry?

"My words echo, thus, in your mind." —T. S. Eliot
Jack Shepherd

20 Modern Indian Poets Who Will Make You Fall In Love With Poetry

Poetry is not dead.
Erende Sangma

Poetry: "Trophy"

What did Chuck really bring home from the lake?
Anders Carlson-Wee

The 13 Best Poetry Books Of 2017

Here are the poetry collections that we absolutely loved in 2017. (Ranked in no particular order.)
Jarry Lee

13 Poems That Will Move You

From verse about Columbus Day to trying to masturbate on election night — these poems have range.
Tomi Obaro

42 Gifts Under $10 That Won't Make You Seem Cheap

Yep, I totally bought this at a fancy boutique.
Elizabeth Lilly

If You Love Music, Here Are 17 Books To Add To Your Reading List

From memoirs to coffee-table books to how music affects your brain, recommendations from BuzzFeed editors!
Emmy Favilla

Here Are The 2017 National Book Award Winners

The winners were revealed at the 68th National Book Awards ceremony.
Jarry Lee

This Couple Published A Book Of Poetry Based On Famous Vines And It's A Bestseller

Based on a variety of memes, milk and vine takes inspiration from the bestselling milk and honey, and it's way, way, better.
Brad Esposito

25 Awesomely Spooky Products For Tim Burton Lovers

Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Rebecca O'Connell

Poem: "Woo Woo Roll Deep"

"You can’t tell us / shit. We always down for the miracle."
Angel Nafis

Poetry: "Columbus"

"What else / have I claimed that was not mine?"
Maggie Smith

Poem: "Cotton Candy"

"My mother wept nightly for eight years / my living curled its hands / around her throat not choking exactly."
Kaveh Akbar

28 Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Fall

New books by Salman Rushdie, Jennifer Egan, Jesmyn Ward, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and John Green, oh my!
Jarry Lee

Poem: "Living On Earth" By Alex Dimitrov

"What does the moon know of our language, / our care for its perceived loneliness / which may be its one joy."
Alex Dimitrov

The Problem With Rupi Kaur's Poetry

The milk and honey author's use of unspecified collective trauma in her quest to depict the quintessential South Asian female experience feels disingenuous.
Chiara Giovanni

Poem: "Buen Esqueleto" By Natalie Scenters-Zapico

"Life is short, & I show them how to talk / to police without opening the door / how /to leave the social security number blank / on the exam, I tell this to mis hijas."
Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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.
Anne Helen Petersen
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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.
Lily Lieberman

Just 13 Forgotten About Haikus Written By Chris Pratt In 2011

These speak for themselves.
Michelle Regna

21 Ridiculously Clever Mugs That Are 100% Funnier Than You

I take my coffee with milk, sugar, and a splash of humor. The products in this post were updated in October 2017.
AnaMaria Glavan

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.
Kyla Marshell

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."
Nicole Sealey

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?"
Franny Choi

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.
Jarry Lee

31 Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring

It's a whole new season of fresh reads!
Jarry Lee

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."
Jan Beatty

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.
Morgan Parker

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
Alison Caporimo

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.
Ximena Rojo

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."
Aricka Foreman

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.
Tomi Obaro

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.
Doree Shafrir

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..."
Phillip B. Williams

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.)
Jarry Lee

15 Literary Baby Names That’ll Make You Want To Have Children

What's in a name? A lot, actually.
Alison Caporimo

Poem: "Record" By Danniel Schoonebeek

"Strike from yourself / these names that you’ve given yourself / and name each part of yourself once again."
Danniel Schoonebeek

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).
Jarry Lee

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.
Saeed Jones

The 11 Best Poetry Books Of 2016

Here are the poetry collections that we absolutely loved in 2016. (Ranked in no particular order.)
Jarry Lee

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..."
Ada Limón

Here Are The 2016 National Book Award Winners

The winners were revealed at the 67th National Book Awards ceremony.
Jarry Lee

14 Beautiful Haikus About, Uh, Current Events

Just some poems about some things that have been going on lately.
Hannah Jewell

Poem: "Partial Hospitalization" By Donika Kelly

"I promised no new doors / into my body."
Donika Kelly
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