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Gets me every single time “I Ask My Mother to Sing” by Li-Young Lee from ROSE (BOA Editions)

You won’t even know whether it’s Twitter you’re reading or Book of Lamentations.

You're still in your twenties... you have the whole of Dostoevsky to get through yet. Then Tolstoy, if you survive.

I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone

Congratulations to our 2024 ALR Award winners! Thank you to everyone who submitted, to our judges, and our staff. The contests will open again in June.

I won a prize! Thank you so much to the editors at American Literary Review and the Judge Carolina Ebeid! Thank you God! 💫

Congratulations, Hilda!! I'm so so so so proud of you!!! 🥰

We close out National Poetry Month with congratulations to the 2025 Furious Flower Poetry Prize Winner-- Martins Deep, as well as honorable mention, Ian-Khara Ellasante, and the five finalists! Gratitude to our amazing judge, aracelis girmay!

Congratulations, my g! Very very happy for you! ❤🎊

"We real cool. We left school." Did a thing UW–Madison with the best & brightest people who have changed me. Spent these two years enunciating the truth of my life. Graduated with a Master's but have now fully become a student of tenderness. Thankful.Thankful.Thankful

Congratulations to the winners of our annual Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Prizes: Janey Ajala's grand daughter and Lilly Dancyger! Check out what our judges had to say:

Congratulations, Janey Ajala's grand daughter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉 💐🙌🏾🥂

It's been a bit since I've been on this app, but I'm resurfacing to say my third poetry collection, DEAR MOTHERSHIP, is forthcoming from Ecco in 2026! I've experienced a lot of life & loss & love since Silencer, & it's all on display in this book. Can't wait to share✨

Massive congrats to all the other finalists. I'm beyond grateful to the editors of Porter House Review for shortlisting me. What an honor! 🥂

Very honored and grateful to have been awarded the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Still very humbled by this news! Looking forward to meeting these amazing fellows and writing next to them.❤✨

Today’s Featured Poem: “Seaside Improvisation” by Richard Siken from Crush, published by Yale University Press Read here: poems.com/poem/seaside-i…

Congratulations, Arike Pre-order, Oga awon olosho.!!!

I’ve dreamed of the Evaristo Prize since I was 18, when it was still the “Brunel Prize”. To say this is “a dream come true” would be nothing short of the truth. I am thankful to those who came before me; to those who paved the way for us all. Thank you. I am grateful. ❤️✨