Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine

06/05/2026

The Poetry Foundation's General Operating Support Program offers unrestricted funding to nonprofit poetry organizations, presses, publications, and select literary arts service and membership organizations.

On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, at 12 PM CT, we'll host an information session on how to apply for funding through our grants program.

Learn more, sign up for the information session, and apply for the latest grants cycle by July 15: https://bit.ly/4lenn61

06/04/2026

The difference between sleeping and waking
is that my supervisory role—

long hours of thought-
titration—
end when I drift off.

—Rae Armantrout with the from the June issue of POETRY

The difference between sleeping and waking is that my supervisory role— long hours of thought- titration— end when I…

06/04/2026

Congratulations to the initial grantees of the Literary Arts Fund! The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to be one of the seven founding funders of this historic project, and a member of the Literary Arts Funders Collaborative.

06/03/2026

On the latest episode of , J Brooke discusses testosterone, incinerators, and the mobster at home.

Listen here: https://bit.ly/3Sh3x0w

06/03/2026

I am not land or timber
nor are you
ocean or celestial body,

but rather we are
the small animals
we have always been.

—Donika Kelly with the on Love Conquers All Day in the United States 💞 https://bit.ly/3KNKhVg

The land and the sea know each other at the threshold where they meet, as we know something of one another, having shown, at different times, some bit of…

06/03/2026

Queerer moon gravity, let’s love each other
(so good) on the moon, let’s love
the moon
on the moon.

—Chen Chen with the 🌜https://bit.ly/4tFaOo2

not back, let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of q***r zest & stay up there & get ourselves a little moon cottage (so pretty), then start a moon…

06/02/2026

The June issue of POETRY is all poems (plus a few translator’s notes, which we recently started including not just in digital but in print)!

Enjoy new work from Ahmad Almallah, Rae Armantrout, Jan Beatty, Manuel Becerra translated by Kristin Dykstra, jason b. crawford, Shane McCrae, Tomás Q. Morín, 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellow Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, and many more.

Read the issue: https://bit.ly/4ongkLf

Cover art by Kris Andrew Small 🎨

06/01/2026

Start Pride Month by exploring our collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics and themes of identity, gender, and sexuality.

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

06/01/2026

There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.

—Walt Whitman with the

A glimpse through an interstice caught, Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated…

06/01/2026

Author Richie Hofmann reflects on how we're stewards of language in our video series, "Where I Write."

Learn more about Richie Hofmann: https://bit.ly/4cWsoh8

Video produced by Three Story Media.