Cover Photo: Detail from Francesco Bartolozzi's "Poetry," which shows a harpist looking to the sky, a crown of leaves adorning her head.
Detail from Francesco Bartolozzi's "Poetry" (1783)/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Poems That Will Inspire You to Keep Writing

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we asked authors the question: “What poem or poet inspires you to keep writing?”

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Cut to Bloom

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The Four Humors

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Soft Science

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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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Homie

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Muscle Memory

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I often return to The Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken. I often return to Eggs. She taught me how to love a character, to really love a character, with knives at hand and no fear. If I could ever learn to love what I have on the page, I can break you in half, too.

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Latitude

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