Ars Poeticas

by Juliana Spahr

Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Lyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right-wing populism, written while rereading Brecht's question about whether there will be singing in dark times. Across six ars poeticas, Juliana Spahr writes about the dark times, coral, the liberating possibilities of the pop song and love among comrades, and traces how poetry and politics have shaped each other.