music Paul McCartney tells the story of writing Eleanor Rigby David Pescovitz

poetry Jim Carroll is one of my favorite poets. Watch him read a poem Popkin

poetry The most powerful poem ever published by Barren Magazine Rob Beschizza

poetry The incredibly complicated question of how to translate inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Thom Dunn

websites Online archive of e e cummings poetry Rob Beschizza

poetry This opal contains a breathaking miniature universe Mark Frauenfelder

poetry Could this meeting be a zoom? A Twitter poem Mark Frauenfelder

poetry Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti (RIP) reads a poem about his dog David Pescovitz

poetry Good Bones: a heart-tugging video poem about this terrible world Claudia Dawson

activism Watch inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's TED talk about the political power of poetry David Pescovitz

poetry First recording of Ginsberg's "Howl" to be released in April Gareth Branwyn

christmas A Christmas poem about grammatically-tense ghosts Thom Dunn

animation "How to Be at Home" is a timely poem set to animation Rusty Blazenhoff

poetry Lovely little roadside poems popping up around the US Jason Weisberger

music Nick Cave: writer's block is actually a "category error" David Pescovitz

poetry "Engage in the long, faithful work," a beautiful graphic poem about learning anti-racism Thom Dunn

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

music And another surprise stunner from Bob Dylan! David Pescovitz

COVID-19 Someone made Found Poetry out of all the emails they've received about COVID-19 Thom Dunn

poetry The oldest written record of "fuck" has been discovered — and it comes from a plague quarantine Thom Dunn