The father of all poetry anthologies was Greek—the Anthologia Graeca, known in English as The Greek Anthology, the first version a collection of epigrams and poems compiled by Meleager of Gadara. That ...

In “New Poets of Native Nations,” readers will not find exoticised verse on “treaties, battles and drums,” editor Heid E. Erdrich assures in her introduction to the 2018 anthology. There is instead ...

The reader of poetry is always on the lookout for good anthologies. Our tastes, often enough, have been formed by such classics as Palgrave’s Golden Treasury or Louis Untermeyer’s Modern American ...

In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn't just representing the history of struggle, "it's also enacting it and resisting it," said poet Kevin Young. By ...

In her introduction to Even the Daybreak (Salmon, €25) Jessie Lendennie promises she is writing a memoir: but anyone can now see the story of her life as a publisher in this big anthology, which ...

Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning (SAEL) doubled down on expanding poetic freedom last Tuesday night with "Poetry Out ...

Mark Doty is the guest editor for this year's Best American Poetry anthology, and here he takes us through the long hours and the ultimately rewarding experience of a year of reading more than anyone ...