Poetry festivals can grow your love for your craft by helping you make new connections, expand your reading list, explore different poetic forms, and more. From Chicago to New York City and beyond, several cities are hosting poetry fests this

July’s poetry releases incorporate hotly anticipated books from established voices, as well as a promising and highly personal debut collection. This summer reading list weaves together large-scale, societal themes and more interior, confessional musings, showcasing the many ways poets reckon