Poetry: Finding Articles About Poetry or Poems

The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.

Coverage: 1972-2017

The editors attach great importance to two points: (1) Cultural poetics shall remain a field of literary studies and must neither forsake its special point of view (and its identity as a discipline) nor neglect the characteristic input that literature adds to overall culture and its own individual dynamics. Occasionally, KulturPoetik will publish articles on general cultural matters, yet, in its core, it will remain a journal for literary studies. (2) All contributions should be written in a way that appeals not only to scholars, but also to interested laypersons.

Coverage: 2001-2019

The first issue of Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship was published in 1972. In 2002, Paideuma broadened its focus, and the journal is now subtitled "Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics." Paideuma is published annually.

Coverage: 1972-2017

Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. Monroe's "Open Door" policy, set forth in Volume I of the magazine, remains the most succinct statement of Poetry's mission: to print the best poetry written today, regardless of style, genre, or approach.

Coverage: 1912-2017

Victorian Poetry examines the poetry of the Victorian Period (1830-1914) from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural issues, and focuses on poets of all classes and genders in Britain and the Commonwealth.

Coverage: 1963-2015

Katie Kovalik and Jen Scott Curwood
Literacy (Oxford, England), 2019-11, Vol.53 (4), p.185-195
"Young people are composing multimodal creative works, including digital poetry, to share with an online audience, using platforms such as Instagram. Drawing on transliteracies theory, this case study found that three main themes appeared regarding the nature of literacy practices on Instagram."

Jacky W. Dumas
The Comparatist, 2019-10-01, Vol.43 (1), p.313-323
"In 'Traces in 'Annabel Lee' of Allan Cunningham's Poem' (1986), Burton Pollin asserts that Edgar Allan Poe used 'the very popular ballad 'Lily of Nithsdale' (134) as inspiration for his own 'Annabel Lee' (1849)."

Dai George
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 2020-04-02, Vol.1 (1)
"This essay interrogates the various imperatives towards syntactical fragmentation and ‘radical unintelligibility’ that are prevalent among the avant-garde poetic community, arguing that they are insufficient to the adaptive stylistic needs of many contemporary poets of colour. Building upon classic postcolonial theory, it posits that a dialectic of grammatical ‘abrogation and appropriation’ more fruitfully captures the hybrid style of many poets working at the interface with prose and lyric essay, often for radical political ends."

Jeffrey Gray
The American Poetry Review (Vol. 49, Issue 5), September-October 2020
"By and large, political poetry--poetry responding to national or global events, poetry of 'engagement' or even 'witness'--was not the norm in the United States through the 20th century. When it was written and when it was read, critical reception was hostile."