Contemporary poetry

"After Language" by Chaia Heller, from «My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems» edited by Lesléa Newman (1996)

September 1994 | Diane Ackerman, Nina Bogin, Christopher Buckley, Nicholas Christopher, Billy Collins, Peter Cooley, Carl Dennis, Gregory Djanikian, Rebecca Elson, Richard Foerster, Robert Gibb, Albert Goldbarth, William Greenway, Peter Kanelos, Fatima Lim-Wilson, W. Merwin, Shannon Nelson-Deighan,…

eighteen years - madisen kuhn imaginary - pg 173 18 years is such an amazing poetry book with soooo many pages (255) and it happens to be my favorite of contemporary poetry

Check out these 48 exceptional free verse poems, from famous contemporary poets to the up-and-coming and everything in-between.

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New York, NY (December 19, 2018)—The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that the most popular poem in 2018 by a contemporary poet on Poets.org was “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye. More than 250,000 individuals read or viewed the poem online in the past twelve months. The poem reads in part: Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of…