What do you say about a poet whose first book wins the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry AND the Poetry Society of America”s First Book Award, AND is a runner up in the Los Angelos Book Prize in Poetry AND wins the Kate Tufts Discovery Award? If you”re Robert Pinsky, writing the foreword to [...]

In the world of poet laureates, Patricia Fargnoli is a rarity, a hardscrabble wildflower of a poet who grew tenaciously outside the walls of Academia. Fargnoli began writing poetry nearly 30 years ago, and has been published in over 100 literary reviews, magazines and journals, including Ploughshares, Poetry and the Mid-American Review. A resident of [...]

If the Academy of American Poets can raise money for its upkeep through their Adopt-A-Poet program, we here at Poems and Poetry figure that we can offer you our Wedenesday”s Poet, free of charge. No contributions expected – just show your support for poetry and words by visiting our Wednesday poets, enjoying their work and [...]