A booth at the AWP Conference in Baltimore displays a prominent "Poetry" sign with colorful magazine covers. People are sitting behind the table. A caption reads, "We're at AWP in Baltimore! Come stop by Booth 1048 and say hi!"
AWP attendees! Have you stopped by the Poetry Foundation booth yet? We're here with lots of goodies (and magazines!) at booth 1048. 😊 @awpwriter.org
“Literature is in a funding crisis,” writes Adrienne Raphel for the March/April issue. “But a glimmer of hope for writers and publishers emerged recently in the form of a philanthropic supergroup: the @literaryartsfund.bsky.social.” Read more: at.pw.org/LiteraryArtsLifeline
"Poets renew words and phrases poem by poem as they try to uncover the secret, yet communal moments of their lives." 🌱
—Adrian Matejka, editor of POETRY magazine, introducing the March 2026 issue.
Click through to read the issue! https://bit.ly/478Opac
Can you believe AWP26 is next week?! We're excited to be joined by these orgs there for Bookfair Bingo!
This is your chance to win a bundle of recently-published books in translation. Fill out your card by visiting participating orgs and you’ll be entered into a raffle. Booth 1066 to learn more!
Promotional poster for the Poetry Foundation announcing that fellowship applications are open. Features a silhouette of a pegasus with details on how to apply by March 2, 2026, at the website www.poetryfoundation.org/awards
The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. The $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.
Learn more and apply by March 2: https://bit.ly/4pEKkkx
Promotional graphic from the Poetry Foundation announcing that criticism applications are open. Features a white Pegasus silhouette on a red background. Text invites to learn more and apply by March 2, 2026, with a link to the Poetry Foundation website.
The Poetry Foundation annually awards the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, a $10,000 prize to honor an outstanding book-length work of criticism published in the US in the prior calendar year.
Learn more and apply by March 2, 2026: https://bit.ly/4qP7zt2
Document By Maggie Smith The day is winter bright. I blink against it. Each time the sun glints in my eyes, each time I close my lids & let them go orange & freckled with light, my mind files it into a folder that contains every other time it’s happened before: folders nested inside folders going back, I imagine, to one morning standing in my crib, waiting for my mother to reach down & lift me out, the sun keeping me company until her arms appeared. In the file: sun, sun_2, sun_3, sun_75, sun_700. Each a document I can return to & open, even revising old experience with new thinking. As if the eye has its own memory— not the mind’s eye but the eye’s mind— cataloging material it claims as its own. Cataloging as long as I live. Sun_7000, sun_final, sun_final_revised, sun_final_final.
A person with short hair is smiling at the camera. They wear a black top and a geometric necklace. The image includes text about Maggie Smith, highlighting achievements as a New York Times bestselling author and host of The Slowdown.
“Document” by Maggie Smith (@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social) from the January/February 2026 issue of POETRY magazine.
Link to poem here: https://bit.ly/3ZCVc7X
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