Tag: Poetry

Articles tagged with poetry

Nojang Khatami

The Lifeblood of Iranian Democracy

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

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Jack Parlett

The Democratic Potential of Cruising

Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Rewild Earth

Kemi Alabi’s Academy of American Poets First Book Award–winning Against Heaven answers generations of spiritual violence and threatened damnation with reclamation, repopulation, and a redefinition of heaven.

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Announcing the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Congratulations to Adebe DeRango-Adem & Simone Person!

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The Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

A recording of our virtual literary event with three generations of Black women writers.

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Virginia Konchan

Elegies for Empire

We can find reconciliation and closure in poetry, despite the forces that engender grief and dispossession. Three new poetry collections refuse the binaries and amnesia that so often characterize American mourning.

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Terrance Hayes

Everyday Mojo Letters to Yusef

A series of creative reflections on why Yusef Komunyakaa remains one of our greatest living writers and what it means to be a Black Jazz Poet.

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Tomás Q. Morín

A Sigh

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Shauna Barbosa

A Name That Doesn’t Nick

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Bennet Bergman

Three poems

We knew so little
about the plague
we underwent . . .

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