Produced by Portals Press, a small publisher based in New Orleans, the anthology includes 70 poems by 66 poets, all with ties to Louisiana.

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Patricia Smith, an acclaimed poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton, received the National Book Award for Poetry on Friday for her new poetry collection, “The Intentions of Thunder: New ...

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Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

The Poetry Foundation has announced the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a United States poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In collaboration with Graywolf Press, ...