For the writer Yanyi, poetry is everywhere. YANYI: I've written poetry accidentally while texting my friends, while getting really excited about something. And, you know, you end up going on a rant, ...

Editor’s note: This week, as people around the world continue to stand for Black lives, Deep Water welcomes a guest editor, the writer Samaa Abdurraqib, and her selection of a poem for our time.

Did you know April is National Poetry Month? It was established in the U.S. in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate and raise awareness about poetry and why it matters. Poetry is a great ...

In “Wade in the Water,” the title poem of Tracy K. Smith’s new poetry collection, the poet en­counters the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters: One of the women greeted me. I love you, she said. She didn’t ...

always a half-hour car ride away. There has never been a time I couldn’t cleanse myself in a living body of water on the same day I thought to do so. Still, the news tells us water is not a given and ...

The Corry Higher Education Council received a PA Humanities grant for a public art project that will have workshops led by ...

Though she grew up in New York and now calls Los Angeles home, Aja Monet’s six years in Miami played a pivotal role in her growth as a poet. Her second collection of poetry, Florida Water, out June 3, ...

For the writer Yanyi, poetry is everywhere. YANYI: I've written poetry accidentally while texting my friends, while getting really excited about something. And, you know, you end up going on a rant, ...