On Galway Kinnell
Poet Galway Kinnell passed away on October 28, 2014. We asked a number of poets and critics to reflect on his life and his work....
Poet Galway Kinnell passed away on October 28, 2014. We asked a number of poets and critics to reflect on his life and his work....
If we don’t learn to listen to the body, which has elements we cannot know exist, we cannot be our selves....
Lytton Smith on his island....
LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi....
TEAM GB has slipped down the rankings, in both the Men’s and Women’s competitions. Defeats to Norway and Switzerland respectively have left progression to the semi-finals — and a chance of the medals — on uncertain ground. ¤ Slipping, physicists will tell ...
LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi....
Dover is the limit – is it not — “Fugue,” David Herd ON A CLEAR DAY, standing on the cliffs at Dover, a port town in Kent, southeast England, you can see to France. The cliffs of Dover, though, are famous for a ...
There was a sense of an almost formal completion. But also a recognition that nothing can be learned, that to be in the presence of a death is to be in the presence of something utterly simple and utterly mysterious. In ...
Tom Chivers’s recent anthology promises a corrective to the assumption that poetic form is a fixed thing, an inherited corset....
To the Arctic in search of poetry...
SHE LEAVES, then later reflects, “I’ve had to do a lot less explaining myself out here.” ¤ We come across creativity through happy accident, which is a tautology not an oxymoron, a fusing of English’s ...
On two books of poems titled 'Gravesend'...