"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.

American poet Marianne Moore reads her poetry at the 92nd Street Y. Moore speaks briefly about her work and then reads several poems including “Logic and ‘The Magic Flute’ (Impressions of a Premiere),” “The Wood-Weasel,” and “The Mind is an Enchanting Thing.” Recorded November 20, 1958, at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Your support helps us continue creating online content for our community. Donate now: http://www.92NY.org/Donate Facebook: http://facebook.com/92ndStreetY Instagram: http://Instagram.com/92ndStreetY Twitter: https://twitter.com/92ndStreetY Archives: http://www.92ny.org/archives

Poet hailing from Syracuse suburbs wins 2018 New Criterion Poetry Prize.

Benjamin Garcia discusses his debut poetry collection, Thrown In the Throat, with Dana Levin. Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show is a monthly interview with a Latinx poet who has recently published their first book. The debut poets themselves have selected their interlocutors. ----- Benjamin Garcia’s first collection, Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions), was selected by Kazim Ali for the 2019 National Poetry Series. He works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health Educator Award recognizing contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. A CantoMundo and Lambda Literary fellow, he serves as faculty with Alma College’s low-residency MFA program. His poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in: AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Lithub, and New England Review. Find him at benjamingarciapoet.com and @bengarciapoet. Dana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), a finalist for the Rilke Prize. Previous books include In the Surgical Theatre, Wedding Day, and Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Lannan, Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives. danalevinpoet.com ----- Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show is a collaboration between The Writer’s Center, Duende District, Poet Lore, and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. This project is funded by the Poetry Foundation and the generosity of individual donors.

Samuel Alfred Beadle was born into slavery in Georgia on 17 August 1857 and was brought to Rankin County, Mississippi, by his mother at the end of the Civil War. Little is known about Beadle’s life be...

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This panel features Chris Hoshnic, Elise Paschen, Kimberly Blaeser, moderated by Rob Arnold. This panel explored the possibilities of translation in Indigenous languages and the creative potential of bilingualism in poetry. We approached translation as a migratory act, one that reveals tensions, ruptures, and resonances between languages. Through poetry and dialogue, we examined how linguistic interplay can foreground fragmentation, resistance, and hybridity. These intersections offered new modes of expression that honor Indigenous epistemologies while simultaneously interrogating colonial legacies.

Annie Wenstrup is a Dena’ina poet and the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories. The recipient of a 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry, her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New En...

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Ryan McIlvain interviews Lance Larsen about his new poetry collection Making a Kingdom of It.