One of the most widely distributed poetry magazines featuring a panorama of poems, essays, and more by American poets
American Poets Magazine
Browse features from previous issues:
Dismantling Rage: On Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider
Years ago, when I was a young Black woman barely recognizable to myself because of the churn of heat...
“Renascence”: Edna St. Vincent Millay Today
“We think back through our mothers,” as Virginia Woolf famously said. I think Edna St. Vincent...
Poetry & Democracy: Khaled Mattawa on Whitman's Democratic Vistas
In his essay Democratic Vistas (1871) Walt Whitman writes, “Democracy... is a great...
Richard Blanco on His Poem "Mother Country" and His Work Today
Excerpted from How to Love a Country: Poems (Beacon Press, 2019).
Assuming the Mask: Persona and Identity in Ai’s Poetry
On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Ai's poetry collection, Killing...
Eileen Myles and Solmaz Sharif: A Conversation Across Generations
Eileen Myles moved from Boston to New York City to become a poet in 1974. Since then, she has...
Late Humanism
So much of what makes art interesting and human are its particulars. Everyone comes from somewhere,...