American Poets Magazine
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,...
Entering the Whirlpool
When I went to the University of Virginia’s bookstore to pick up semester readings for Fall 1999,...
Ange Mlinko on “The Waste Land”
Among the medieval artifacts in the British Museum is an example of what’s called an acoustic...
Poetry’s Healing Work
When people ask me what I do for a living, I start by telling them that I am a licensed clinical...