The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

SAPIENS magazine is excited to share news of its 2025 digital poet-in-residence: Uzma Falak. Through this position, Uzma will explore ethnographic poetry as a site of refusal and witnessing. Her poems ...