“As we study an art form or professionalize ourselves as artists, we forsake some of the play, the risk. I can get closer to that initial wildness in my notebook, a big unlined artist’s sketchbook.”
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series congratulates the five winners of the 2025 National Poetry Series Open Competition: Hajjar Baban, Stephanie Horvath, Weston Morrow, Kira Alexis Tucker, and Yi Wei.
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series congratulates the five winners of the 2024 National Poetry Series Competition: Games for Children by Keith Wilson Chosen by Rosalie Moffett for Milkweed Editions 82nd Division by D.M. Aderibigbe Chosen by Colin Channer for Akashic Books Blue Loop by AJ White Chosen by Chelsea Dingman for University of Georgia Press Our Hands Hold Violence by Kieron Walquist Chosen by Brenda Hillman for Beacon Press Shade is a Place by MaKshya Tolbert Chosen by Maggie
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series, in collaboration with Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Book Fair, is pleased to announce the 2024 Paz Prize for Poetry winner: Venezuelan poet Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez for her manuscript Un sol caído avanza. Her book was chosen by German Guerra and will be published by Akashic Press in 2025. María Auxiliadora Álvarez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1956) is a professor emerita at Miami University, Ohio, since 2023. Growing up in different countries
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series congratulates the five winners of the 2023 National Poetry Series Competition: Field Guide for Accidents by Albert Abonado Chosen by Mahogany L. Browne for Beacon Press Post-Volcanic Folk Tales by Mackenzie Schubert Poloyni Donnelly Chosen by Ishion Hutchinson for Akashic Books The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake Chosen by Jacqueline Trimble for University of Georgia Press Playing With The Jew by Ava Winter Chosen by Sean Hill
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series is proud to announce the five winners of the 2022 Open Competition, whose works will be published next year by our participating publishers: Organs of Little Importance by Adrienne Chung Chosen by Solmaz Sharif for Penguin Books Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike Chosen by Camille Rankine for Akashic Books Survival Strategies by Tennison S. Black Chosen by Adrienne Su for University of Georgia Press I Love Information by Courtney Bush Chosen
Continue readingThe National Poetry Series and Miami Book Fair are proud to announce that Oneyda Gonzalez is the winner of this year’s Paz Poetry Prize for an original manuscript of Spanish language poetry. The National Poetry Series, in collaboration with Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Book Fair, with the National Poetry Series, is pleased to announce the 2022 Paz Prize for Poetry winner: Cuban poet Oneyda Gonzalez for her manuscript El lazo infinito. Born in
Continue readingCongratulations to poets Su Cho, Shelley Puhak, Kien Lam, No’u Revilla and Alexandra Lytton Regalado.
Continue readingThree Poet Laureates and three Pulitzer Prize Winners read their work and discuss the role of the poet.
Continue readingNational Poetry Series founder and director Daniel Halpern reflects on the 50th anniversary of his publishing imprint, Ecco, in an interview with Mitchell Kaplan on LitHub.
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