Harriet: News & Community

The Poetry Foundation and its board of trustees are pleased to announce new hires and staffing updates, and highlight current opportunities.

We are offering  a space to explore histories both hyper-local and transnational, to spotlight urgent and emergent conversations in contemporary poetry, and to trouble the Black literary imagination across boundaries...

We're excited this morning to announce the winners of the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Today, we're thrilled to announce Marilyn Nelson has been honored with the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Some good news coming out of the offices of the Poetry Foundation today: Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, sam sax, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Paul Tran are this year's Ruth Lilly and...

Today, we’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living U.S. poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada is awarded the prize...

Late last week, we found out the names of the poets who will make up the class of 2017 for this year's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows....

Hosted by the poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi, VS podcast is a new Poetry Foundation feature with new episodes every other Tuesday. You can subscribe to VS on iTunes,...

You might have noticed we have a new look! The redesign of poetryfoundation.org culminates a nearly two-year project that aims to bring users an engaging, immersive online reading experience while...