Letter
Happy National Poetry Month!
by Jennifer Benka

Awards
2018 Walt Whitman Award Winner

Q&A
Introducing Three New Chancellors: Marilyn Chin, Kwame Dawes, and Marie Howe

Essay
Poetry, Permeability, and Healing
by Jane Hirshfield

Interview
Why Poetry, Why Now?
A Conversation between Elizabeth Alexander and Maria Popova

Essay
The Marianne Moore of First Intentions
by Heather Cass White

Essay
Restoration in the Attention Economy: On Reading C. D. Wright’s “ShallCross”
by Jenny Xie

Re:Print
Selected poems from new books by Fady Joudah, Carol Muske-Dukes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Carl Phillips, Diane Seuss, and Bianca Stone.

Books Noted
by Major Jackson