The Editors

Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker is the digital archivist at the Poetry Foundation. Eric is an interdisciplinary poet, artist, and scholar. He earned a PhD in humanities from the University of...

Poems, articles, and podcasts that explore African American history and culture.

Poems reflecting on work, responsibility, and the end of summer.

Celebrating the career and legacy of one of our greatest poets.

Celebrating the life and work of the remarkable poet, translator, and children's author.

Poetry about great players, unusual teams, and flashy moves.

Cookouts, fireworks, and history lessons recounted in poems, articles, and audio.

Tracing the fight for equality and women’s rights through poetry.

His commitment to poetry over many decades—as a poet, critic, teacher, and mentor—was without peer.

An introduction to the mid-century countercultural poets who helped define a generation.

An introduction to one of the most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry.

Composed, produced, and remixed: the greatest hits of poems about music.

An introduction showcasing one of the most influential cultural and aesthetic movements of the last 100 years.

Contemporary poems for and about the moms in our lives.

An introduction to a newly personal mode of writing that popularized exploring the self.

An introduction to poets of the experimental college that helped revolutionize mid-century poetics.

An introduction to the monumental artistic movement that changed poetry forever.

An introduction to the poetic revolution that brought common people to literature’s highest peaks.

An introduction to the cultural revival that inspired an era of poetic evolution.

Witnessing the struggle for freedom, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement.

An Anniversary Collection

A collection on the work and impact of a legendary poet

Work by and about the founding editor of Poetry magazine