Yusef Komunyakaa has said that the gift of the poet is to see behind ... that entryway into the secret universe of each poem. In the words of Robyn Selman, “[His] poems rise to a crescendo, like that ...

I believe poetry is an action, and I believe the great poet, Zbigniew Herbert, would have agreed with me. American poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Laureate of The Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award ...

We publish a great range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Whitney Balliett, Amiri Baraka, Hayden Carruth, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Jayne Cortez, Stephen Dunn, Gary Giddins, ...