The offerings of this year’s poetry winners have a nostalgic or regretful hue. Two poems are explicitly about vanished features of North Carolina; our winning effort celebratesin a light, clever ...

A poem read aloud is a mysterious thing. Poems, which are really just potent combinations of words, have the power to sneak in and disturb someone in surprisingly intimate ways, provoking emotions, ...

Co-founder of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, Charles Bernstein has long been recognized as one of the key avant-garde figures on the contemporary poetry scene. Until now, however, most of his work has ...