Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up 13 collections by Atlanta poets.

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one of the most influential literary organizations in the U.S.

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically ...

For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

W.J. Lofton: boy maybe (2025) In W. J. Lofton’s third poetry collection, boy maybe, 51 Harlem Renaissance-influenced poems ...

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