As it celebrates this achievement, we decided it would be fun to ask for people’s stories about being rejected from the foundation’s time-honored literary journal, Poetry magazine. If you’re ...

Her $100 million endowment has instantly turned Poetry magazine from the most highly regarded but also perennially penniless American poetry journal into the world's largest foundation for verse.

This February’s issue of Poetry magazine is meant as a statement. The magazine is filled by poems and artwork by incarcerated people, former prisoners, and the relatives of prisoners.

So I was excited when I was asked to be Poetry Magazine’s guest editor for February, a relatively new monthly addition to this venerable publication. Why me? Good question, but it likely has to ...

Niyi Osundare, a Nigerian multiple award-winning poet, has been selected as cover poet and headliner on World Poetry, a magazine of the World Poetry Movement. Mr Osundare will feature in the fifth ...

The Poetry Foundation began its year-long celebration of Poetry magazine’s 110th anniversary last month by honoring 11 legendary poets with a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize—one of the largest and ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Adrian Matejka, the new editor of Poetry magazine. Polina Osherov / AP Share Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary ...