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To let someone into your metaphor so deep as to touch the symbol of your most emotional self is a great risk. The reader of a poem takes great risk...

I recently learned that the word “curate” comes from “curare,” a Latin root meaning “to attend and to care for.” I’ve long had an aversion to the terminology of “curating”...

The Poetry Foundation often receives questions about Emily Dickinson's poems, particularly the typographical, orthographical, and grammatical "errors" in copies of her poems found on the website.

“For the archive!” is a rallying cry that is handed down from poet to poet at Naropa University, the disembodied poetics brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and other outrider...