“The word stanza means ‘room’ in Italian...and each stanza is like a room in a house, a lyric dwelling place,” writes Edward Hirsch in A Poet’s Glossary. Stanza is fully furnished with updates throughout the week about new jobs for poets, our Chancellors and programs, plus new essays, video and audio, lesson plans, and other poetry resources. Click each title below to read more.
The Poetry of Your National Parks
In celebration of the National Park Service Centennial, we have commissioned fifty poets to write...Poems & More for LGBTQ Pride Month
June is Pride Month, an annual celebration commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Riots, which took place...Crossing Incredible Bridges
This year, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities, we...Inaugural Poems in History
Only four presidents—John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden—have had poets read...Poetry for Election Day
As people across the country flock to their local poll locations to vote in the presidential...Poems for Mom on Mother's Day
This Mother's Day, as we gift our mothers with flowers and other tokens of our appreciation, we...
From the Archive: John Berryman's Halloween Reading
Though American Archives Month is winding down to a close, bringing with it the start of Halloween...Poems for World AIDS Day
In recognition of December 1, World AIDS Day, we’ve gathered a group of poems by contemporary...
Poems for the Summer Solstice
Read poems for the longest day of the year, known as the summer solstice, which falls annually on...New Books Reviewed by Stephanie Burt
New this month, critic and poet Stephanie Burt has penned a roundup of twelve book reviews of...