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Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Langston Hughes and Bessie Head. These poets shared meaningful correspondence at times spanning decades. Check out Poets.org’s expanding collection of poets’ letters—and how they drew from the epistolary form in their poetry.

On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form

Letters to a Young Poet [The First Letter]

My Father's Love Letters (audio only)

Consider the Hands that Write This Letter

Letter from Town: The Almond Tree

Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

The Letter

The Letter

Letter Home

Letter Home

Letter Already Broadcast into Space

Dear Dainty Delicious Darling: Poets' Love Letters

Letter to Gertrude Chataway

Letter to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Letter to Alice Nelson-Dunbar

Letter to W. B. Yeats

Video: "What's the most important letter you've received?"

The Letter Q: Eileen Myles

The Letter Q: Stacy Szymaszek

The Letter Q: Ching-In Chen

The Letter Q: Dawn Lundy Martin

The Letter Q: Ely Shipley

The Letter Q: Timothy Liu

From the Archive: A Letter from Marianne Moore

From the Archive: Poets’ Stamps

From the Archive: Postcard to Betty Kray

Postcard: Advice to a Young Poet

Postcard: Disable Spellcheck

Postcard: Advice to a Young Poet

Postcard: "It is because I love you..."

Postcard: Read beyond that which...

Dear Lonely Animal,

Two Love Notes to Alice B. Toklas

Letters of Marianne Moore

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