The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

The passions do run strong on this one, and sometimes it’s tough to tell the good guys. Jim Swan was still rummaging through the remains of his Fat Boy’s barbecue sandwich Tuesday when … ...

Swan. Poems and Prose Poems. Mary Oliver. Beacon Press: 96 pp., $23 “What can I say that I have not said before?” the poet Mary Oliver wonders on page 1 of this, her 20th collection.

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it.

Quotes from the “End Poem,” as the swan song is titled, have been inked on fans skins and turned into merch. But the story behind the prose is tantalizing in itself. Suggested Reading.